On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 07:32:16PM +0000, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > > The ability to be able to read the manual pages from the binaries
> > > themselves, when running is interactive mode, is an intentional feature
> > > and the reason they embed a gzipped version of the formatted manpage.
> >
> > Even in the installer?
>
> Especially in the installer, because you might not have another machine
> nearby to access documentation. (and there were no smartphones when this
> was introduced close to 25 years ago)
>
> > The manual feature is handy, but I don't think it's worth having in
> > install media.
>
> This feature is *especially* intended for installation media.
>
I might even go one step furter: the regular programs do not need the
embedded man pages (as man(1) is available), but the installboot versions
sure do.
-Otto
