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Re: Why does groff require psutils?
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G. Branden Robinson |
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Re: Why does groff require psutils? |
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Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:41:48 -0500 |
At 2024-03-17T12:53:14-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, Alexis wrote:
> > Note that the documented use of psselect in
> > contrib/momdoc—describing how to rearrange a table of contents
> > generated at the end of a document when using the ps output
> > device—is unchanged as I did not find a suitable replacement.
>
> Switching to ps2ps imposes no penalty on the mom documentation,
> which explicitly instructs users to acquire and install the psutils
> package if it is not already on their system.
I had similar thoughts. The NEWS item documenting the vanishing build
dependency can remind the reader that it implies nothing no reduced
utility of psutils for people _using_ groff, contra _compiling_ it.
Regards,
Branden
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