Re: Fixing catman pages

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 21:35:28 +0900, Jonathan Perkin 
<jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:

>  #1: Use mdocml as the tool replacement for nroff.
>  =================================================
>
>   Some packages which generate catman pages ('pkgin', for example) add
>   a USE_TOOLS dependency on nroff, which currently will pull in groff.
>
>   Whilst this works, it is not ideal as groff has many dependencies,
>   and when adding catman support to e.g. devel/tradcpp we run into
>   circular dependency issues.
>
>   To fix this, two changesets are required.  First, allow mdocml and
>   groff to co-exist, so that 'USE_TOOLS= groff nroff' will work
>   correctly.  This involves renaming some of mdocml's files:
>
>     
> https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/1e43db1ed16b8d232001ec68f237a791afdff473
>
>   Secondly, use mdocml for USE_TOOLS=nroff:
>
>     
> https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/de6ecbe53c452369475e9058542666bee864c3f2
>
>   This should have benefits regardless of catman issues, as mdocml is
>   much smaller than groff and is BSD licensed.

How about change to install nroff from groff as `gnroff' instead, same as other 
GNU packages?

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