Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 14:29:56 -0700
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.
 
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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Fri May 02 2003 - 12:30:05 UTC

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