Emanuel Strobl wrote: > I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB > including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't > build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it costs > me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I moved my > patches to /dev/null. > Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simply > with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than all > the manpages itself! Have you considered preformatting the manual pages on the development system, and copying over the pages into /usr/share/man/cat* of the shrinked-down system? > And of course, even if I decide to leave system man pages outside the flash > card I still may want to read man pages of installed packages (which is > another mountpoint on my installation, so there may be no space limit, > depending on the card and additional drives) Again, it appears your shrinked-down system has access to a more powerful machine. You could modify man to run groff on the remote machine. -- Diomidis - dds_at_ - http://www.spinellis.grReceived on Tue Apr 26 2005 - 16:43:52 UTC
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