URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68554>
Summary: consider supporting a "bootstrapping" build profile
with minimized dependencies
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 24 Jul 2026 01:49:23 AM UTC
Category: General
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Build/Installation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 24 Jul 2026 01:49:23 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Nguyễn Gia Phong wrote in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2026-07/msg00025.html :
On 2026-07-22 at 02:35-05:00, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> groff can be (and maybe is) fairly deep in the dependency stack.
> I've given consideration to supporting a "bootstrapping profile"
> of groff that builds only what is needed to generate, say,
> man pages for terminal viewing. Not building anything in contrib/,
> or anything written in Perl, would drop groff's own build dependencies
> to something near minimal: C, C++, and their standard libraries.
Thanks, that would indeed help (6172 packages on Guix transitively
depends on groff), though it is not a major concern
as the bootstrapping variants of build tools just disable man page
generation AFAIK.
Research scope/difficulty of this task.
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