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Re: [Groff] Replacing groff with troff?


From: brian m. carlson
Subject: Re: [Groff] Replacing groff with troff?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:49:56 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:59:44AM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
> It's bad enough that Debian and its derivatives (*ubuntu) include
> only a cut-back version of groff that's barely adequate for
> formatting manpages, but at least that's easily remedied during
> installation.

Debian includes a groff-base and a groff.  The former is useful mostly
for formatting manpages, but the latter adds all the things that the
former is missing.  In other words, the groff package should include a
complete groff environment.

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