Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:03:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: ue@nathan.ruhr.de (Udo Erdelhoff) Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/termcap termcap.5 src/share/man/man3 intro.3 src/usr.bin/systat systat.1 Message-ID: <200003012303.PAA87543@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20000301215854.M239@nathan.ruhr.de> from Udo Erdelhoff at "Mar 1, 2000 09:58:54 pm"
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> Hi Rodney, > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:44:45AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > s/curses/ncurses/ > > I am not so sure that this one is a good idea. A better fix would > > be to install an MLINK curses->ncurses so that behavior remains the > > same > the changes to the manpages didn't change the system behaviour at all. A > system created by a fresh install from a 4.0-RC does not contain a manpage > called curses(3), the patches in docs/17061 simply acknowledges and > documents this fact. They do not remove an existing curses manpage nor > do they prevent the generation of this manpage. > > If your system contains a file named /usr/share/man/man3/curses.3.gz, it's > an old copy. /usr/src/libcurses was zapped by 'peter' on 26-NOV-1999. And > curses.3 died on that day. > > On the other hand, a MLINK for the manpage is certainly a good idea. Most > people will look for curses, not ncurses. And some day ncurses may be replaced. The manual pages that reference the curses replacement of the day should just reference curses, curses should be an indirection to what ever implementation is favored on that day. Go around and changes all curses(3) references to ncurses(3) is silly when a single MLINK would have solved the problem, an MLINK that should have been created the day src/libcurses was replaced by libncurses. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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