While reading the INSTALL notes for amd64 today, I learned that groff(1) is to be phased out in a future release, since man pages are handled with mandoc(1), and groff(1) can still be found in pkgsrc as textproc/groff.
As someone who uses groff as a lightweight alternative to TeX and friends**, I wonder if it could be kept in the base system. One of my NetBSD systems is a small VPS server, where I don't have any need, or indeed much space, to use pkgsrc. I maintain a couple of other NetBSD systems as backup servers, and pkgsrc is not installed on them either, but I do use groff to format automated {daily,weekly,monthly} reports. I would be disappointed to see groff removed from the base system. It is a nice fit for NetBSD's minimalist philosophy, and I ask that the decision to remove it be reconsidered. Thank you. ** http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-03.html -- Gerard Lally