avoiding build dependency on docbook, etc. in new port

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 17 21:27:04 UTC 2009


Greg Larkin escribió:
> This is a much lighter-weight tool for converting docbook to manual
> pages, among other functions.  I eventually added it to the ports tree
> and updated the logcheck port to use it.
Another idea: generating man pages directly with XSLT stylesheets. 
Actually, these docbook2man and docbook2X do the same I think but they 
hide the details. To use the XSL stylesheets you need docbook-xsl and 
libxslt and calling xsltproc with the proper parameters. It's pretty easy.

Cheers,

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