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> References: <20030502171957.28624.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <3EB2AC00.7070307@tcoip.com.br> <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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