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Date:      Fri, 2 May 2003 14:29:56 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Thomas Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs
Message-ID:  <20030502212956.GA47838@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030502181922.GA425@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 08:19:23PM +0200, Thomas Seck wrote:
> > The "sole benefit" you see is clearly enough of a benefit. There _are_ 
> > good reasons to reduce dependency on GPL, y'know.
> 
> Sorry, but then you would have to replace binutils, gcc, groff, and many
> other things too. But this has been discussed to death already.

They are used to *build* the system.  Not use it.  One could remove all
the manpage sources and only have the catman bits .bzip2'ed.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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