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

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