Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

2015-03-31 Thread Gerard Lally
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

Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

2015-03-31 Thread Gerard Lally
At date and time Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:18:36 +0200, tlaronde wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:24:51PM +0100, Gerard Lally wrote: As someone who uses groff as a lightweight alternative to TeX and friends** FWIW, I have developed a minimal TeX system: kerTeX

Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

2015-03-31 Thread Greg Troxel
Gerard Lally lists+netbsd.us...@netmail.ie writes: 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

Re: Request to reconsider removal of groff from base system

2015-03-31 Thread Eric Haszlakiewicz
On March 31, 2015 7:24:51 AM EDT, Gerard Lally lists+netbsd.us...@netmail.ie 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