On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:16:17 +0200, Nicolas Williams 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:04:58PM +0200, Frank Batschulat (Home) wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:04:05 +0200, Stephen Hahn <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >   There's a long thread on one of the opensolaris.org aliases that led
>> >   to less being the new default for PAGER in the new user rc files.  I
>> >   think your defensive check would be a good improvement, and should
>> >   lead to the elimination of the added dependency to doctools.
>>
>> Yes, please :) ->
>>
>> Bug 13732 - /etc/skel/.profile does set PAGER=less without checking its 
>> availability
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13732
>>
>> 6933562 Bug 13732 - /etc/skel/.profile does set PAGER=less without checking 
>> its availability
>> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6933562
>
> Why is more any more likely to be installed than less?  Why can't less
> be required for any minimized install that also installs man (and
> manpages)?

easy to answer I'd guess, more(1) has always been installed by default 
traditionally 
and so it is still in OSOL world. a same requirement for less(1) will
probably work to. (still in my bug, less(1) had been removed deliberately in
an apparent attempt to "minimize" the system -> 6914152)

---
frankB

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