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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:34:14 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r331810 - in head: Mk/Uses archivers/lha archivers/lha-ac audio/mp3gain comms/vrflash converters/mpack emulators/vmw german/dtaus graphics/hobbes-icons-xpm irc/iroffer irc/iroffer-dinoe...
Message-ID:  <20131126073414.GD19582@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1311260414350.1711@tuna.site>
References:  <201310272229.r9RMTkd2060648@svn.freebsd.org> <526E39C2.2000806@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1311260414350.1711@tuna.site>

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:17:46PM +0900, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > portmgr has decided that manpages should be in the plist; you=20
> > should not unilaterally decide to re-add a macro for it again.
>=20
> One question on this that's been in my head for a while:  Should
> we ever move man pages from .gz to .xz, say, how will we go about
> this in ports?
>=20
> To me that is the main design disadvantage of moving from MAN=3D to=20
> pkg-plist.  I am sure this has been considered and I just have not
> seen the answer.
>=20
lates discussions and tests shown that it was absolutly useless to use .xz =
for
manpages, we had a couple of discussions about it on the mailin lists

regards,
Bapt

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