On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Frank Batschulat (Home) <Frank.Batschulat at sun.com> wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2008 04:24:44 +0200, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at > nrubsig.org> wrote: > >> ... for the log: I am currently _rewriting_ the manpage subsystem from >> scratch (the frontend already exists as >> http://svn.genunix.org/repos/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/scripts/shman.ksh >> ; I'm now waiting for the "ksh93-integration update1" to land before >> doing the remaining work). IMO it may be nice to syncronize the work a > > Interesting, does that imply if I go and remove ksh/ksh93 from the system > I won't have a functioning manpage subsustem ?
Is that really a concern? If you are stripping down a system far enough that you are removing well-established shells (assuming ksh93 moves to ksh at some point) certainly the man pages, troff, etc, would have been whacked first. In a subsequent message, Frank said: > fwiw, since a long time we had the goal of not adding additional > new config files into /etc, (just think about a read only root > file system mount). This would seem to bolster the notion of using SMF properties or simlar. Then we can argue about whether cache files (like windex and cat*/*) belong in /usr or /var. All good topics to discuss if a man subsystem rewrite is underway. Again, moving the thread to on-discuss. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
