On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't the better way to get packages delivering manpages to deliver > preformatted manpages and their windex (or some index, at least), > and to have man just look at all the windex fragments? It seems > silly for every user to have to rebuild all this when it should be supplied > already done.
I'm partial to the suggestion at http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/bespoke_services_application_catman to have a service property that indicates whether pre-formatted pages are created. > (And having the man command use the index rather than traversing the > filesystem hierarchy so it runs at acceptable speed would be good.) And so many other things. Perhaps odt templates and appropriate xslt magic would be another good thing. Personally, I would happily trade the small performance hit for formatting a man page from time to time than pay the performance hit during installation, restore, etc. associated with millions of tiny files. Imagine using a database that has full-text search capabilites instead of apropos to find the right documents. But this is all way beyond the small step I am proposing to fix something that is easy to fix without mucking with public interfaces while we wait another few years for man to get smarter. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
