Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:25:32 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace gnu groff in base by heirloom doctools Message-ID: <FFF76229-A6C3-4966-A781-5E9AF4477E9B@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20150514092407.GD11201@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20150514000211.GA9410@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <2915B2EB-DE58-451B-801B-92EB7CBCAA43@FreeBSD.org> <20150514085948.GC11201@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20A766BD-1AE4-44B2-B508-CD2E96B5DD65@FreeBSD.org> <20150514092407.GD11201@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On 14 May 2015, at 10:24, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:13:18AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: >> On 14 May 2015, at 09:59, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 09:55:19AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: >>>> On 14 May 2015, at 01:02, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> - it is partially CDDL partially BSD license. >>>> >>>> We currently have a WITHOUT_CDDL knob that some people use. If we don’t build the CDDL parts, what will break? >>>> >>> Exactly the same thing that breaks right now WITHOUT_GNU and/or WITHOUT_CXX aka >>> you won't have the main part of the toolchain (aka troff/nroff) >> >> But man pages will still work via mandoc? WITHOUT_GNU is known not to work (though we’re trying to address that with 11). WITHOUT_CDDL is generally expected to give a working system currently. > > Yes since I switched the default manpage renderer to mandoc(1) :) (meaning that > WITHOUT_GNU is also not blocking manpage rendering) Sounds good to me. Probably warrants a release notes entry specifically documenting that change, but otherwise sounds like a big improvement! David
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