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Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Tue Nov 26 03:17:52 UTC 2013


On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> portmgr has decided that manpages should be in the plist; you 
> should not unilaterally decide to re-add a macro for it again.

One question on this that's been in my head for a while:  Should
we ever move man pages from .gz to .xz, say, how will we go about
this in ports?

To me that is the main design disadvantage of moving from MAN= to 
pkg-plist.  I am sure this has been considered and I just have not
seen the answer.

Gerald


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