On March 31, 2015 7:24:51 AM EDT, Gerard Lally <[email protected]> wrote: >While reading the INSTALL notes for amd64 today, I learned that >groff(1) >is to be phased out in a future release, since man pages are handled >with mandoc(1), and groff(1) can still be found in pkgsrc as >textproc/groff. > >As someone who uses groff as a lightweight alternative to TeX and >friends**, I wonder if it could be kept in the base system. One of my >NetBSD systems is a small VPS server, where I don't have any need, or >indeed much space, to use pkgsrc. I maintain a couple of other NetBSD >systems as backup servers, and pkgsrc is not installed on them either, >but I do use groff to format automated {daily,weekly,monthly} reports.
How much space do you expect it to actually actually take up? If all you want is groff, dont't install pkgsrc itself, just pkg_add the groff package! Eric -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
