Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 00:26:12 +0200 From: Thomas Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030502222612.GB425@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030502212956.GA47838@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030502171957.28624.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <3EB2AC00.7070307@tcoip.com.br> <20030502181922.GA425@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20030502212956.GA47838@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* David O'Brien (obrien@freebsd.org):
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 08:19:23PM +0200, Thomas Seck wrote:
> > > The "sole benefit" you see is clearly enough of a benefit. There _are_
> > > good reasons to reduce dependency on GPL, y'know.
> >
> > Sorry, but then you would have to replace binutils, gcc, groff, and many
> > other things too. But this has been discussed to death already.
>
> They are used to *build* the system. Not use it. One could remove all
> the manpage sources and only have the catman bits .bzip2'ed.
Please remove them from the base install and make them optional with
'WANT_*'-knobs then.
--Thomas
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