Subject: Re: using nroff with pkgsrc?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/16/2004 15:53:01
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:21:04PM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> > Some packages (e.g. lang/f2c) assume that nroff is available on the
> > system. On IRIX 5.3 there is no native nroff. Would it thus make sense
> > to have a dependency on texproc/groff?
>=20
> I don't think that this is desirable -- textproc/groff depends on:
> graphics/netpbm print/psutils print/ghostscript-gnu lang/perl58
>=20
> We wouldn't want to build all this gunk just to get nroff.

see pkgsrc-changes from a few weeks back, this concept has already
been discussed.

grant.


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