On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Unless I've got it all wrong, <https://man.openbsd.org/> will only > > display man pages for programs and commands in base. Is there a way to > > display the man page for a package/port I haven't installed and/or > > downloaded yet? (This assumes I haven't downloaded the ports cvs > > tree). > > Doing that would be very annoying and painful, and very few people > would want it. It would also substantially degrade the clarity at > man.openbsd.org
Actually, it ought to be feasible to have the same mechanism in place for base as a third party mechanism. I don't think it would be that difficult to setup, this obviously ought to be separate from the main OpenBSD installation, as the quality of manpages from ports is often not up-to-par compared to base. Both Ingo and naddy and I, we've been routinely passing all manpages from all packages through groff and mandoc and makewhatis to the point that over 99% of them would be clean for a usage similar to man.openbsd.org
