Re: How do I get the man page for a package I haven't installed yet?

On 2020-06-26 20:03, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Jordan Geoghegan <jordan@geoghegan.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-06-26 18:45, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>> Jordan Geoghegan <jordan@geoghegan.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2020-06-26 13:43, Marc Espie wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:20:35PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>>>>> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unless I've got it all wrong, <https://man.openbsd.org/> will only
>>>>>>> display man pages for programs and commands in base. Is there a way to
>>>>>>> display the man page for a package/port I haven't installed and/or
>>>>>>> downloaded yet? (This assumes I haven't downloaded the ports cvs
>>>>>>> tree).
>>>>>> Doing that would be very annoying and painful, and very few people
>>>>>> would want it. It would also substantially degrade the clarity at
>>>>>> man.openbsd.org
>>>>> Actually, it ought to be feasible to have the same mechanism in place for
>>>>> base as a third party mechanism.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think it would be that difficult to setup, this obviously ought to
>>>>> be separate from the main OpenBSD installation, as the quality of manpages
>>>>> from ports is often not up-to-par compared to base.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both Ingo and naddy and I, we've been routinely passing all manpages from
>>>>> all packages through groff and mandoc and makewhatis to the point that
>>>>> over 99% of them would be clean for a usage similar to man.openbsd.org
>>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD appears to offer manual pages from ports on their man page
>>>> website: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
>>>>
>>>> Not advocating for anything, just thought I'd point it out.
>>> Completely irrelevant.
>>>
>> I thought it was relevant for folks looking for http access to ports
>> manpages, as the FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports trees overlap
>> significantly. I often use that site when I'm on a machine that
>> doesn't happen to have the particular package installed whose manpage
>> I want to view.
> It is very easy for outsiders to ask a project to do more, MORE MORE
> MORE, and not understand there are a limited number of people doing the
> work.
>
> So if this gets done, something else will not get done, or will get done
> less well.
>
> And it will be your fault.
>
>

I wasn't asking for anything, I was just trying to be helpful and share
a resource I've personally found useful. I don't feel strongly about any
of this, so consider the conversation over.

Regards,

Jordan