[RFC] Replace gnu groff in base by heirloom doctools

[David Chisnall]

On 14 May 2015, at 10:24, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:13:18AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
>> On 14 May 2015, at 09:59, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 09:55:19AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
>>>> On 14 May 2015, at 01:02, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> - it is partially CDDL partially BSD license.
>>>> 
>>>> We currently have a WITHOUT_CDDL knob that some people use.  If we don’t build the CDDL parts, what will break?
>>>> 
>>> Exactly the same thing that breaks right now WITHOUT_GNU and/or WITHOUT_CXX aka
>>> you won't have the main part of the toolchain (aka troff/nroff)
>> 
>> But man pages will still work via mandoc?  WITHOUT_GNU is known not to work (though we’re trying to address that with 11).  WITHOUT_CDDL is generally expected to give a working system currently.
> 
> Yes since I switched the default manpage renderer to mandoc(1) :) (meaning that
> WITHOUT_GNU is also not blocking manpage rendering)

Sounds good to me.  Probably warrants a release notes entry specifically documenting that change, but otherwise sounds like a big improvement!

David