On 11.11.2020 00:16, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Kamil Rytarowski <ka...@netbsd.org> writes: > >> I am surprised that the proposal to remove MK${FOO} is read as removal >> of the Makefile conditionals and keep ${FOO} in the base. With that >> bizarre interpretation the whole proposal renders into useless idea. >> >> I would be very surprised to interpret that e.g. proposal to remove >> MKX11 would not mean to remove X11 from the base but to enable it by >> default. > > That is a ridiculous strawman and not the same thing at all. MKX11 > means to build X11. MKCATPAGES means to have the step of generating > catpages at OS release time. We don't have a switch to say "don't build > the tools that could make catpages". I thought it was obvious that > your proposal was just "remove the build.sh/Makefile glue that generates > catpages at release time, and setlist contents that expects them", > nothing more. >
I can only congratulate to ignore the content of my mail, reinterpret the title and produce an excuse to keep us in 1980. Citing: usr.sbin/catman/README.hardlinks +All of this seems like a SMOP, but it doesn't really seem worth doing +at the moment given that we don't build catpages at all by default and +they aren't particularly useful to have any more except on the slowest +of slow hardware. I've left this note so that someone else can take it +up if they see fit. + + - dholland 20160529 I wish good luck finding user-base/target-audience (if you like, in any age) that relies on the slowest of slow hardware and cannot use anything else to study the system documentation.