On 2007-11-04 05:03, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:10:40PM +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:48:54PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > 2) getting rid of catman and forcing man to generate a new one from > > > scratch each time instead of filling up /usr/share/man/cat* with stale > > > files. Is this going to be a big drain on a p4-era pc compared to > > > something like another periodic.conf script? > > > > > > or > > > > > > 3) A compile or run-time option that disables catman as described above. > > > If I knew of one, I'd enable it without a second thought on my cutting > > > edge p3 desktop :) > > Put weekly_catman_enable="NO" in your /etc/periodic.conf > > It defaults to "no". > > Regardless, I think you miss Andrew's point. AFAIK, there isn't any way > to disable automatic creation of catman pages when "man" is run as root. > Being able to disable that feature would ultimately solve this issue > for those of us who don't want it (this thread has already mentioned > the problems with it). I think this is worth more investigation. The source of man(1) is contributed GNU-licensed code, but I'll see how hard it is to implement an option like: MK_MAN_CATMAN_SUPPORT = "no" which when turned on disables the related feature of man(1).Received on Sun Nov 04 2007 - 12:49:51 UTC
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