2008/5/23 Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-23 21:34]: >> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > After I my recent putback of some enhancements to man (PSARC/2007/688) >> > one of the comments I received was that now it would be nice if man >> > pages were automatically indexed. The best solution I have to this >> > today is to run find to look for directories that look like they >> > contain man pages then run "catman -w" against them. Surely there is >> > a better way. >> > >> > I was thinking that the better way would be to have a service similar >> > to fc-cache that looked at the timestamps of man* and sman* >> > directories subdirectories and compared them to the timestamp of the >> > assocatiated windex files. >> >> 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 think we could look at this improvement as well, but Mike's approach > also indexes man pages that arrive on the system via other means. > (This is one of the reasons we've been pushing update services.)
The one concern I have with this is the extra bandwidth. I know these particular bits will probably compress well. However, in aggregate, they are still a concern to me. I know most US users don't care about the extra bits, but my sojourns in Australia had me counting every kilobyte I downloaded while I was there. I would personally be more than willing to trade the processing time for generating these in exchange for my allotted bandwidth. I would hope that we could adapt the system such that it could generate them if they were not present, and bandwidth-conscious users could opt via ips filtering to not download such items. Filtering, to me, is a big differentiator between ips and other systems; other systems differentiate by packages which means users are at the mercy of the package maintainers when it comes to bandwidth. I realise that they will still be when it comes to the filtering tags/attributes. However, I believe package maintainers will be more inclined to maintain tags/attributes than separate packages. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
