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Date:      Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:32:06 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: groff alternative?
Message-ID:  <86k6mo0xmh.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200504262010.49509@harrymail>
References:  <200504262010.49509@harrymail>

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Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> writes:
> I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to
> ~50MB including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing
> if I don't build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the
> needed libstdc++ it costs me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's
> only 500k more, so I moved my patches to /dev/null.

Install pre-rendered man pages instead of the mdoc source, and fake up
a shell script that locates the appropriate page, decompresses it and
pipes it to $PAGER.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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