From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0837B425CFA for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783721988; cv=none; b=CGct8ydFJCHrg7uDMI/BTsOTuc9XGTzAiGmXYBIAxqwVQ3PoUcr4GtVG1J54hmMwsrn1ChY9E6sif6J4c5Pt1W0QOu1k7LGhF5qMwy2HurMeqNRu6yA6KJJh7lJNjqA4EgZzGsCus2pkzGG6xcy7n/vunbbQRObkGB8P/bgSjk4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783721988; c=relaxed/simple; bh=9Auk/bv4HXIXLsUSnRU4jX5bfQM4RF73KlsR7gsIFxA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version: Content-Type; b=S+U2ehwmU5J0NFTs2ppYImiuJjlxFYEqDt9gGE+UaY6RmdhwXYlIL+wnBY1VV2rAHoV3YmoINbqyVLNkeomlrvvn4Pz3S33xasXUFzI0iesT0NXPQep4naxEMKYoC6fEy1sN1Xl43AYrfXYW6PLIypsKjTGgj3Nkn39BwMFQ100= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b=hzyh3+z1; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="hzyh3+z1" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1783721985; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to; bh=9Auk/bv4HXIXLsUSnRU4jX5bfQM4RF73KlsR7gsIFxA=; b=hzyh3+z1J8cWW2sfRNV0ZjaVJkJOsAkMV1hBAeQI4kk+M05vWXDhIeUyuErAShPq4CU/1O gGHN40tq5EGdZzh+e3TMzjJQ5CXWUXEFKEqH/Xn8jUjWUu4rVoWwSgjhzvqQT4/T/ja3Pj E3nMfSpAMaJ2+45FF9uGZA4LnVdIoNw= Received: from mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-85-9LCrk20SPE-aZahx5DrPbg-1; Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:19:42 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 9LCrk20SPE-aZahx5DrPbg-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: 9LCrk20SPE-aZahx5DrPbg_1783721981 Received: from mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.93]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CEA31955F7A; Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from greed.delorie.com (unknown [10.22.89.250]) by mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0E54180059A; Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from greed.delorie.com.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greed.delorie.com (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTP id 66AMJdEa778862; Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:19:39 -0400 From: DJ Delorie To: "G. Branden Robinson" Cc: alx@kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why we're stuck with man(7) (was: man/man8/ldconfig.8: document system-wide tunables) In-Reply-To: <20260710195854.ud4riftmhrfzu54d@illithid> (g.branden.robinson@gmail.com) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:19:39 -0400 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.93 > Is there a canonical reference to the flavor of roff that we write to, > for modern systems' man page formatters? Nevermind, found it...