HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo do cs

[Scott Long]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> it), and then switch the default compression method from
> gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)
> 
> 
> Cheers,

Ruslan,

1) have you consulted portmgr?
2) what will happen to all of the existing system .gz manpages when one
builds world?

Scott