I could deal. It's one of the things I like about Illumos -- that I have real 
troff and friends, not just groff. I already pull outside stuff into my SmartOS 
boxes, so one more repo is no biggie.

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> On Jul 14, 2014, at 20:22, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity, would you find it incredibly inconvenient if troff and 
> nroff were shuffled out of illumos gate and stashed in a separate repo 
> somewhere?  (Note that it is unclear which distros would continue to ship it 
> -- they'd have the option.)
> 
> (Note that I'm not currently planning on this, just contemplating the option.)
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Coy Hile <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > Good question.  I'd torch them if it were up to me.  I suppose in theory 
>> > someone might have some content in .ms or something like that (I wrote 
>> > papers in .ms macros when I was in school).    My preference would be to 
>> > eject them from the illumos-gate, and let folks get them from another 
>> > repository if they really want them.  My gut is that nobody uses these for 
>> > anything except man pages.
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> Me, I still us troff for doing real work (with -ms macros). I find it more 
>> readable for the most part than TeX and friends. (I, too, hate LaTeX, 
>> preferring plain TeX or AMS-TeX if needed.)
>> 
>> -c
> 



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