Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On March 31, 2015 7:24:51 AM EDT, Gerard Lally <lists+netbsd.users%netmail.ie@localhost> wrote:
>While reading the INSTALL notes for amd64 today, I learned that
>groff(1)
>is to be phased out in a future release, since man pages are handled
>with mandoc(1), and groff(1) can still be found in pkgsrc as
>textproc/groff.
>
>As someone who uses groff as a lightweight alternative to TeX and
>friends**, I wonder if it could be kept in the base system. One of my
>NetBSD systems is a small VPS server, where I don't have any need, or
>indeed much space, to use pkgsrc. I maintain a couple of other NetBSD
>systems as backup servers, and pkgsrc is not installed on them either,
>but I do use groff to format automated {daily,weekly,monthly} reports.

How much space do you expect it to actually actually take up?  If all you want is groff, dont't install pkgsrc itself, just pkg_add the groff package!

Eric


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