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Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 26 07:34:20 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:17:46PM +0900, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > portmgr has decided that manpages should be in the plist; you 
> > should not unilaterally decide to re-add a macro for it again.
> 
> One question on this that's been in my head for a while:  Should
> we ever move man pages from .gz to .xz, say, how will we go about
> this in ports?
> 
> To me that is the main design disadvantage of moving from MAN= to 
> pkg-plist.  I am sure this has been considered and I just have not
> seen the answer.
> 
lates discussions and tests shown that it was absolutly useless to use .xz for
manpages, we had a couple of discussions about it on the mailin lists

regards,
Bapt
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