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

[Thomas Seck]

* David O'Brien (obrien at freebsd.org):

> 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.

Please remove them from the base install and make them optional with
'WANT_*'-knobs then.

     --Thomas