DJ Lucas wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 05:59:14PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm way on the downhill side of getting all the package >>> updates in. Groff is sort of a bugaboo, however. The >>> DJ book uses the Groff-UTF8 package, but I'm not sure it >>> does much. >>> >>> Please give some input if you have any on this subject. >>> It would be an addition to LFS Chapter 6. Do we need it? >>> >>> Note that the plans right now are to still include the >>> man-db package and not the man package which DJ used in >>> his version. >>> >>> Any and all input in this internationalization stuff would >>> be appreciated, as I'm a totally English speaking Editor >>> without much knowledge about i18n. >>> >> I was the one who mentioned groff-utf8: from what Colin said, >> *current* man-db looks a better way to go (i.e. it converts non-UTF8 >> pages, so we don't have to recode them). The issue seems to be "can >> we use recent groff with man-db ?" and for that I have no idea, I >> haven't even got close to looking at how it's all set up in current >> debian and ubuntu. >> > No..only groff CVS.
No, not even groff CVS, because it expects different command line options than those hard-coded in Man-DB. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
