Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i never looked at xman(1) nor did i ever use it.
> 
> But oh gawd...
> 
> That whole thing is totally broken.
> Nothing about it works at all.
> 
> For example, try to view the strlcat(3) manual page:
> start xman(1), hit Ctrl-S, type "strlcat", click "Manual Page".
> The response is "No manual entry for strlcat".
> 
> It attempts to reimplement man(1) in a very poor way.
> It uses the old man.conf(5) format that we stopped supporting
> years ago.  I'm sure that list of issues is far from complete.
> 
> Fixing it seems like a major undertaking - and a complete waste of time.
> I'm mean, what's the point?  Just run man(1) in an xterm(1).  That
> actually works and has so much more useful features.
> 
> Consequently, i strongly suggest that we simply delete the whole
> program from OpenBSD without any replacement.  That is what we usually
> do with software that is broken, obviously unmaintained, and useless.
> 
> Any objections?
> 
> Yours,
>   Ingo
> 

I think it can die.

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