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

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Tim Robbins wrote:

>
> gzip is trivially replaceable by minigzip in this case. It makes little sense
> to talk about replacing a GPL'd piece of code with a non-GPL'd piece of code
> in this context anyway: we are using a GPL'd man utility by (someone's) choice
> when the 4.4BSD implementation is adequate, and we are using GNU groff.
> Using bzip2 instead of gzip will not let us format manual pages without GNU
> tools.

There is a man2db tool hanging around somewhere which would let you
replace groff man pages by docbook reentry pages, which in turn would let
you format them with say xsltproc.

As an added bonus, you could then boot groff from teh base system or at
least make it optional.

> Tim