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 _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
