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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,
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Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems)
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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

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