Jordan Geoghegan <jor...@geoghegan.ca> wrote: > On 2020-06-26 18:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Jordan Geoghegan <jor...@geoghegan.ca> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 2020-06-26 13:43, Marc Espie wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >>>> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> 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 > >>> > >> FreeBSD appears to offer manual pages from ports on their man page > >> website: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi > >> > >> Not advocating for anything, just thought I'd point it out. > > Completely irrelevant. > > > > I thought it was relevant for folks looking for http access to ports > manpages, as the FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports trees overlap > significantly. I often use that site when I'm on a machine that > doesn't happen to have the particular package installed whose manpage > I want to view.
It is very easy for outsiders to ask a project to do more, MORE MORE MORE, and not understand there are a limited number of people doing the work. So if this gets done, something else will not get done, or will get done less well. And it will be your fault.
