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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:21:36 +0100 (BST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        simon@freebsd.org, uqs@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why we don't build ps/pdf of /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ ?
Message-ID:  <201208122121.q7CLLa8I088424@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20120812210125.GI1202@acme.spoerlein.net>

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	From uqs@freebsd.org Sun Aug 12 22:14:35 2012
	> > We build /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ into ascii
	> > documents. Is there a reason why we don't
	> > also build Postscript or PDF?
	> 
	> I suspect since it was considered waste of space originally when it was set up.
	> 
	> If anyone were to touch those docs I would suggest moving them to the doc repository instead of changing them where they currently exist as they don't really belong in src.

	I have this planned, but as with many things I hardly get to do any of
	them.

	The move to doc is needed to cut groff out of the base system.


So to see the man pages one will need
to install groff from ports first?

Anton



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