Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:45:11 -0500 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <20011213104511.H34121@buffoon.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <200112131517.fBDFHZC78678@green.bikeshed.org> References: <jabley@automagic.org> <20011213093519.G34121@buffoon.automagic.org> <200112131517.fBDFHZC78678@green.bikeshed.org>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:17:35AM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> wrote: > > 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. > > So of course, when the end-user wants to zcat /usr/share/man/manx/y.x.gz | > groff -Tps -mdoc | lpr, they happily install the source tree to be able to > do this? Since it has been this way since OpenBSD 2.5, if not earlier, I think it is safe to say that that is not a high-demand function of the OS by OpenBSD users. Thinking about it, I don't think I have ever printed a manual page. It may be worth mentioning that OpenBSD's avoidance of pre- formatted nroff source isn't accompanied by some GNU-like deprecation and stagnation of manual pages in favour of something different; OpenBSD people seem to put a lot of effort into improving their manual pages, and they are typically very good. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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