On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:04:52 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I don't see why "rm -rf /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps" should cause > "groff -Tpdf" to fail or behave differently in any way. Do you? > > Regards, > Branden
Hi Branden, I love your little jokes. :-) If you do the rm you suggest, groff won't fail, well it will if you run groff without a -T option. The sole difference is you will not be able to use freeeuro with pdf but there are plenty of better glyph alternatives. You will have a much more serious problem, man -t will not work at all. In my mind grops is the senior service, gropdf the illegitimate child, because grops is a dependency of the man program. This is why nearly everyone packages grops as part of core groff package (required if you install man) and gropdf is consigned to the full fat groff package. So in reality you will find grops without gropdf, but never t’other way round. And if you are using rm -rf as the root user you deserve to find out that things can be a bit different, you naughty boy. Cheers Deri
