Re: HTML version of man pages?
Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> After upgrading to XFree86 4.0.1 I noticed that imake tries to create
> and install HTML versions of all man pages now.
Yes, I've ran into this too.
> IMHO the HTML version of a groff man page can be created on the fly,
> if some user prefers this, so it doesn't make much sense to create
> them at build time and ship them with every package.
I agree, and so did other developers on irc when I ran into this a few
days ago. I hacked my package to not install the html file. Several
tools exist in debian to html format man pages on the fly, even some cgi
scripts that are integrated with debwww and so on.
> So I suggest
> changing the xlibs-dev package to add
>
> #define BuildHtmlManPages NO
>
> to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/site.def.
Sounds good to me.
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