Zap++ .... Ken
On 16 February 2014 10:47, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:39:15 +0100 >> From: Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> >> >> Hi, >> >> the file /usr/share/misc/man.template is horribly outdated and >> incomplete, compare it to mdoc.template in the same directory. >> >> I think deleting it completely is better than updating it, because >> nobody is supposed to manually write new man(7) manuals, certainly >> not in OpenBSD, but nowehere else, either, really. If you do need >> man(7) code, you can generate it with mandoc -Tman from mdoc(7) >> input, like it is done in the portable sudo(8) build system. >> >> People do continue to write and maintain tools to generate man(7) >> code, think of pod2man(1) or mandoc -Tman. But man.template >> is not helping with such tasks at all. >> >> I got an OK from jmc@ for zapping it, but want to make sure >> people don't regard it as still useful for reasons we missed. >> >> Objections, OKs? > > zap it! >
