Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 10:35:16 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@nuxi.com>, Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030502073516.GD18773@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030502071926.GC3258@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030502011307.GA82420@sunbay.com> <20030502153334.A70914@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20030502071926.GC3258@dragon.nuxi.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:19:26AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, 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.) > > > > I don't mean to sound rude, but what is the justification for this? > > It removes the depandancy (well reduces it) on one more GPV'ed binary. :-) > Blah, I meant to mention this too, thanks! ;) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+sh+0Ukv4P6juNwoRAh46AJ9kCHj0NVLt0Fv5a2g7PyYYJ0UjWgCfW266 5yS5ewNDBTxwwdyfUDvTFyE= =cuK9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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