Follow-up Comment #1, bug #66583 (group groff): More background:
Elsewhere in the email thread (specifically, http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2024-11/msg00152.html), Branden wrote, "If a volunteer submitted a clean patch to support disabling generation of Texinfo's output formats, I'd consider it. But I can't promise I'd integrate it. There is some documentary material in our Texinfo manual that is not duplicated in our man pages." I don't think the last sentence identifies a valid obstacle. There are plenty of situations in which a user might need groff but not its documentation--especially since roff software is essential to displaying man pages, which far more users read than write, and groff documentation is needed only for the latter. (Users who only want to read man pages may not even be aware there's a thing called "nroff" in the pipeline. I was such a user for many years.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66583> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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