Hi, Antoine Jacoutot wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 04:50:38PM +0100: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 03:40:56PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2015/01/05 16:30, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>>> Why? We support gzipped manpages just fine. >> Consistency if nothing else.. > That's only because we started supporting gzip'ed manpages > not so long ago. Both man(1) and apropos(1) have been supporting them for years, long before both were switched to the mandoc implementation. > And that no one bothered removing the patches. But for new ports, > I see no reason to patch out for something we support. espie@ does, here is what he told me on June 13, 2014: :: Don't do it. :: :: gzip manuals in packages are a bad idea. :: They store a timestamp within the file proper. :: :: This completely precludes the optimization I'm working on :: wrt pkg_add and updates. Yours, Ingo
