Re: [RFC] Replace gnu groff in base by heirloom doctools

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 11:34:59 +0200
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 02:31:55AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On May 13, 2015, at 17:02, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I plan to work in replacing GNU groff for FreeBSD 11.0 in base by heirloom
> > doctools.
> 
> …
> 
> Hi Bapt,
> 	Do you have a list of items that require doctools [if groff isn’t present]?
> Thanks!

They are all only build time and all locate in share/docs basically everything
using bsd.doc.mk

man(1) also falls back on gnu groff when not able to read a manpage with mandoc
and I will switch that to use heirloom (and if not present try to use gnu groff
from ports)

Best regards,
Bapt

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