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Re: [groff] 22/40: [devpdf]: Do more explicit work and less magic.
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G. Branden Robinson |
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Re: [groff] 22/40: [devpdf]: Do more explicit work and less magic. |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:07:03 -0600 |
Hi Deri,
Quick thinko correction, and one data point.
At 2022-11-16T18:43:17-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > In my mind grops is the senior service, gropdf the illegitimate
> > child, because grops is a dependency of the man program.
>
> I feel this is exaggerated; it both understands the capabilities and
> importance of gropdf, and is overly specific about what, exactly,
> man(1) requires.
s/understands/understates/
> That may be due to the Perl dependency more than any other factor.
I was thinking here specifically of the following.
https://centos.pkgs.org/7/centos-x86_64/groff-perl-1.22.2-8.el7.x86_64.rpm.html
https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/groff-perl.html
Regards,
Branden
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