I propose to drop the support for MKCATPAGES=yes. catpages are preformatted .txt files that happen to contain manual pages and are cat(1)able. Over the past more than 5 years, I was the only person reporting any fallout and fixing the regressions in the MKCATPAGES=yes build failures. I'm going to switch to dynamic manual pages formatting through mandoc(1) as superior, allowing to tune the behavior of the display. This proposal is driven by a request of a user to implement MANWIDTH. If we would want to support MANWIDTH we would need to rearrange the order of detection of the manual pages (similar to what did FreeBSD), but I consider it not worth the complexity. I recall catpages to used in 80286 UNIX (Coherent) and the catpages are probably just applicable for such constrained environments that cannot host any text formatters.
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