Hi Jason,

Jason McIntyre wrote on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 07:23:47PM +0059:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:34:25PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

>>> (3) tomorrow: send patches to switch "tbl | nroff"
>>>     over to mandoc in the base build system
>>> (4) tomorrow: send patches to unlink the last me(7) and ms(7)
>>>     documents form the base build

>> That's what this message is about, see below.
>> 
>> I have already tested the relevant parts of the base build with it,
>> and I'm starting a full base build (i386) with it right now.
>> In case mobody else wants to do that, i will try a xenocara build
>> after that.

> i've run this through a build of base, amd64 machine, with MANPS set.
> no problems building.  the man pages look fine on the terminal,

Thanks a lot for checking!

> but tables do not work at all for postscript pages -
> don;t know if you know that or not.

Frankly, i feared as much; but as MANPS is off by default and it
affects merely 16 pages, and it was rather unlikely to kill the build,
i didn't want to waste any time on that particular problem right now.
I think tbl -Tps can be fixed later.

> note i do not have xenocara source, so did not build X.
> 
> i can;t see any other problems.
> 
> one question (not just for ingo) -
> what are we doing with the me/ms pages?

The patch i just sent simply unlinks them from the build,
such that they no longer get installed.

> we have sufficiently removed enough of them that i think
> it's just not worth keeping the rest. especially if we don;t
> anticipate a means to view them in base (or do we?). perhaps we
> could just distribute them as ascii text files?

I do not hold strong opinions on these questions.

Yours,
  Ingo

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