Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/w3m
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/30/2002 10:21:54
Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum@netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:58:57PM +0300, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> >
> > Module Name: pkgsrc
> > Committed By: uebayasi
> > Date: Wed May 29 13:58:56 UTC 2002
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > pkgsrc/www/w3m: Makefile.common
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Perl is used while processing manual pages.
>
> If I am not mistaken, w3m had worked *without* perl till this change.
> If that was true, I think we shouldn't make it depend on perl
> "just to have manual pages".
(Without having looked at the package at all:)
How about splitting it into w3m and w3m-doc or some such? Or patch the
man-pages to normal *roff format? If the man-pages are in POD format, I
seem to recall that there are tools to automatically convert them.
-Jan