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.
Sent from my iPhone > 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 > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
