remove groff from base?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

textproc/groff is more up to date and
more complete than the src version,
for obvious reasons. I use groff for
document preparation, so need the ports
version. I don't mind having the two
versions, just have to remember to use
-M man switch, or set the PATH accordingly.

However, I wonder, with all the talk
about some tools better kept in ports
rather than in base (e.g. pkg), is it
perhaps better to remove groff from
base completely?
The bsdinstall (I haven't used it yet
myself, haven't done a fresh install for
a while) could still offer to install
the man pages, but warn the user that
textproc/groff must be installed.

On the other hand, groff depends directly on 29
other ports, so maybe it's a lot to
ask from a user - if something is wrong
with the ports tree, the user might
end up with no man pages, which is bad.

Anyway, for me, the more tools are moved
to ports - the better. I happen to use
mostly older, slower boxes,
so buildworld time is an issue.

Anton