I propose to remove catman(8). The removal of all cat-man remnants was already implied during the proposal of drop MKCATPAGES, but it apparently was not clear enough. Rationale: - cat pages are not generated by default since 2012 and almost nobody (except me?) used them in the past few years. - This tool was removed from other BSDs by default and catman is not a part AFAICT of any Unix specification. - Passing the documentation through mandoc(1) enables dynamic customization, while cat(1) cannot do much or anything as it operates on pre-generated .txt files. Personally. I recall cat-pages to be relevant on Coherent 80286 UNIX-like OS, operating in real mode. Next, I propose to remove cat-man support from man(1) and man,conf(5). Patch minimum for man(1)/man.conf(5): http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00286-stop-using-cat-dirs.txt Patch optimum is to remove the support for "_crunch", "_suffix" and eliminate all cat-man remnants from man.conf and man(1).
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