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

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Thomas Seck wrote:
> * Garrett Wollman (wollman at lcs.mit.edu):
> 
> 
>>The correct answer for one of these has no implications on any of
>>the others.
> 
> 
> I am just a user but I'll second that.
> 
> Am I the only one who thinks that some people are on a "kill the GNU,
> kill it now, no matter the cost" trip again?
> 
> I can see no benefit in switching to bzip2 other than eliminating GPL'ed
> software. No, I do not think disk space is an issue nowadays.

If two programs do the same thing, but one is GPL and the other is not, 
the other one is clearly preferable for FreeBSD.

As far as _ports_ are concerned, it is irrelevant. As far as the _base_ 
system is concerned, the less we depend on GPL, the better.

The "sole benefit" you see is clearly enough of a benefit. There _are_ 
good reasons to reduce dependency on GPL, y'know.

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