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

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 08:19:23PM +0200, Thomas Seck wrote:
> > The "sole benefit" you see is clearly enough of a benefit. There _are_ 
> > good reasons to reduce dependency on GPL, y'know.
> 
> Sorry, but then you would have to replace binutils, gcc, groff, and many
> other things too. But this has been discussed to death already.

They are used to *build* the system.  Not use it.  One could remove all
the manpage sources and only have the catman bits .bzip2'ed.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)