On 10/23/10 13:50, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Ian, > > probably it's not a good idea to massively patch a manual page in a port > when that page uses features not handled correctly by mandoc. > In such cases, just use groff, and wait for mandoc to catch up, > or just stay with groff for good. Both are fine. > > Besides, i don't think we should install two copies of the same manual. > With USE_GROFF, we just install the formatted version (as the > unformatted version doesn't work well mit mandoc); without USE_GROFF, > we would just install the unformatted version (because mandoc is quick > at formatting it, and besides, that's how it was always done in ports > land). > > OK?
As Naddy said in the post about lang/eltclsh: > Let's just install the mdoc source page and get rid of the cat page > altogether. The provided one works OK with mandoc if you rip out the \n(XXX crap, which is what my patch did.
