Re: [PATCH] Remove useless warning from man(1)

["Olivier Duclos" <odc%sleepycat.fr@localhost>]

Okay, I would still argue it is useless. But I guess it is part of the UNIX fetish :)

-- 
  Olivier Duclos

On Mon, Nov 9, 2026, at 19:17, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2026 at 10:45:57AM +0100, Olivier Duclos wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I propose to remove the message "man: Formatting manual page..." that we get
>> each time we call man.
>
> This warning is emitted only when preformatted manual pages are not
> installed.  It lets users who are, in fact, on slow systems know why they
> are waiting -- because even on such systems, if the cat pages are installed,
> rendering is instantaneous.
>
> I'm pretty sure this dates back at least to 4.3BSD and possibly past that.