Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:35:20 -0500 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011213093519.G34121@buffoon.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <20011213102601.D76019@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011211234433.B697@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200112122117.fBCLHhM38741@harmony.village.org> <20011213102601.D76019@monorchid.lemis.com>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:26:01AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 14:17:43 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <20011211173028.H232@gohan.cjclark.org> "Crist J. Clark" writes: > >> Nothing in man(1) actually breaks if you just make /usr read-only. You > >> won't get cached pages, but in this day of overpowered CPUs, who > >> cares? OTOH, in these days of super-cheap HHD, who needs markup pages > >> except for the developers? > > > > Well, if installworld did a catman phase... > > I've seen a system which does this. I think it was Inactive. It's > certainly a reasonable option, maybe even worth being the default. OpenBSD does this. The only manual pages that are installed in /usr/share/man are pre-formatted catman pages. /usr/share/man/man* exist, but are empty. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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