Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Rainer Orth wrote:
> >> I'm finally done with the changes for some CRs I'd created long ago:
> >>
> >> 6412893 SUNWonbld should install into /opt/SUNWonbld
> >> 6414833 SUNWonbld should use /opt as BASEDIR
> >> 6414843 SUNWonbld shouldn't install sgml man pages
> > [snip]
> >
> > Erm... I do not understand this item... wasn't the long-standing consens
> > that Solaris tries to migrate away from *roff manual pages and switch to
> > DocBook/SolBook ? In any case I would sync with the docs team and let
> > them sign-off this change...
>
> There is a difference between what is used to develop the man page and
> what is installed on the system.
Erm... the problem with the *roff files is that they ruin some kinds of
layouts. That was the reason why this stuff should've be killed-off by
now (e.g. no more *roff manual pages, one of the reasons why we're going
to add DocBook support to |libast::getopt()| (since this function can
generate manpages via options --man/--nroff form the builtin data)) ...
but there was a bug (erm... Michelle or someone else from the docs folks
may remeber what this was) which caused the whole idea to be reverted
until the bug gets fixed.
> Have a look in /usr/share/man/sman*/ and you will find them
> surprisingly empty.
$ ls -lad /usr/share/man/sman*/* | wc -l
780
... but it was a _lot_ more in earlier Solaris releases (a result of the
bug note above).
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Bye,
Roland
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