Jordan Geoghegan <jor...@geoghegan.ca> wrote: > > > > On 2020-06-26 13:43, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Unless I've got it all wrong, <https://man.openbsd.org/> will only > >>> display man pages for programs and commands in base. Is there a way to > >>> display the man page for a package/port I haven't installed and/or > >>> downloaded yet? (This assumes I haven't downloaded the ports cvs > >>> tree). > >> Doing that would be very annoying and painful, and very few people > >> would want it. It would also substantially degrade the clarity at > >> man.openbsd.org > > Actually, it ought to be feasible to have the same mechanism in place for > > base as a third party mechanism. > > > > I don't think it would be that difficult to setup, this obviously ought to > > be separate from the main OpenBSD installation, as the quality of manpages > > from ports is often not up-to-par compared to base. > > > > Both Ingo and naddy and I, we've been routinely passing all manpages from > > all packages through groff and mandoc and makewhatis to the point that > > over 99% of them would be clean for a usage similar to man.openbsd.org > > > > FreeBSD appears to offer manual pages from ports on their man page > website: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi > > Not advocating for anything, just thought I'd point it out.
Completely irrelevant.
