>>>> [...single-user...man(1) fails EROFS...] >>> OK, I see here a suggestion that in the year 2020, installed >>> catpages save the day as the only way how to get a formatted >>> manpage for publicly available operating system while in >>> single-user without a read-write /tmp.
Only way? No, of course not. Especially since this was me, an expert sysadmin, at home, where I have lots of other machines at hand. If I had been at a remote location, with no other machine I have access to at ready hand, then it could have been crippling. (That could be physically remote, or it could be simply in a co-lo data centre where I have one machine and none of the hundreds or thousands of other computers in the room are ones I have any access to.) As it was, it was merely inconvenient. But it was a significant inconvenience. 9.1 has been handing me inconveniences ever since I first started trying to install it; the only reason I'm putting up with them at all is that I'm being paid to - and I've started taking steps to get out of that job. >>> And that is the reason to keep the tool in base. For the record, I >>> find this suggestion really bizzare. For the record, I find the suggestion that _keeping_ the tool is somehow the stance that requires justification really bizarre. It seems to me that the onus to justify should be on the ones in favour of change. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B