From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 14:30:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0419C37B404 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 14:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3782743FBD for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 14:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h42LTum2053340; Fri, 2 May 2003 14:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h42LTu0B053339; Fri, 2 May 2003 14:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 14:29:56 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Thomas Seck , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030502212956.GA47838@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030502171957.28624.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <3EB2AC00.7070307@tcoip.com.br> <20030502181922.GA425@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030502181922.GA425@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 21:30:05 -0000 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)