Hi, Eric Furman wrote on Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 07:12:33PM -0400: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 2:20 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 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 > I think the best option is if the program you want to install has > a web page would be to go there and ask them if they could > put up the docs you want. I'm not a fan of that advice. Usually, it's not a good idea to go huntiing for documentation on the web because you easily end up with documentation for the wrong version. Well, if you pay close attention to which version you have and which version the documentation is for, it may occasionally work - if whatever site you find reports the version and reports it correctly. It may suffice for a quick first look to decide whether or not you want to seriously consider using the software. If you want to start studying the documentation in earnest, it may be a better idea to just install the package, even if you don't plan to run the software right away. As opposed to systems like Debian, installing a package you do not want to run is actually safe on OpenBSD: OpenBSD will not automatically run things just because you install them. Yours, Ingo
