On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 07:24:50AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>Hi Frank,
>
>Frank Beuth wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:22:27AM +0000:
>
>> Is the web documentation (FAQ etc) included in the base system by
>> default anywhere,
>
>No it isn't.
>
>I offered some years ago to translate the FAQ from HTML to mdoc(7)
>and to include it in /usr/share/man/faq/ such that it would become
>available for both -current and -stable both online and offline
>without additional maintenance effort just like any other documentation
>and such that it would automatically be included in apropos(1)
>searches, but the proposal was rejected because the developers who
>actually maintain the content of the FAQ consider it easier to
>maintain in HTML than in mdoc(7) format.
>
>We don't want to lose the valued contributions of those developers
>who actually spend all the work maintaining the FAQ or make their
>work any harder than it is now.
Thanks. Too bad the mdoc idea failed!
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