The following reply was made to PR pkg/31273; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: irix-pkg-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org, tech-pkg@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/31273
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:15:45 -0400

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 Stuart Shelton <stuart@zeus.com> wrote:
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 >  Just a quick comment to say that I might have misunderstood one of the=
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 >  earlier points, but "nroff" is available for IRIX: it's not installed by=
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 >  default, but SGI's Freeware does include it.  Can its presence be detect=
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 >  rather than never building pre-formatted man pages (if I've understood a=
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 >  this is what the new behavior is)
 
 Well, this is somewhat tricky as this changes the list of files to be
 installed (PLIST).  It might be better to install a proper nroff
 alternative from pkgsrc, but IIRC that pulls in a rats tail of
 dependencies, which may seem silly if all you want is format one little
 page.
 
 -Jan
 
 P.S.: I'll xpost and followup-to this to tech-pkg.
 
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