At 2024-11-21T23:57:07-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > One can find documentation essential but also realize it doesn't have > to live on every system that one might want to build the software > itself on. We've had these things called "networks" for a couple > years now that free us of the necessity of having separate copies of > documentation everywhere. > > Sure, there's plenty to be said for having locally available > documentation that's guaranteed to reflect the version of the software > on that machine. But there's also plenty to be said for allowing > groff to be installed on tiny systems using a bare minimum of > prerequisite packages.
We used to support this, but it bit-rotted to the point that it became difficult to reliably build the documentation when it _was_ desired. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=3805d2a0e4aebb84d896f86285fd565488e849bb Regards, Branden
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