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Date:      Thu, 01 May 2003 19:44:11 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo do	cs
Message-ID:  <3EB1CD6B.6060001@btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com>
References:  <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com>

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Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> it), and then switch the default compression method from
> gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)
> 
> 
> Cheers,

Ruslan,

1) have you consulted portmgr?
2) what will happen to all of the existing system .gz manpages when one
builds world?

Scott



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