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From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: why we don't build ps/pdf of /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ ?
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On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 23:45:04 +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> On 10 Aug 2012, at 00:02, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > We build /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ into ascii
> > documents. Is there a reason why we don't
> > also build Postscript or PDF?
> 
> I suspect since it was considered waste of space originally when it was set up.
> 
> If anyone were to touch those docs I would suggest moving them to the doc repository instead of changing them where they currently exist as they don't really belong in src.

I have this planned, but as with many things I hardly get to do any of
them.

The move to doc is needed to cut groff out of the base system.

Cheers,
Uli