From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28803 invoked from network); 4 May 2023 07:21:08 -0000 Received: from bsd.lv (HELO mandoc.bsd.lv) (66.111.2.12) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 May 2023 07:21:08 -0000 Received: from fantadrom.bsd.lv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mandoc.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id da9a644a for ; Thu, 4 May 2023 02:21:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-pj1-f54.google.com (mail-pj1-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mandoc.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 825eaf88 for ; Thu, 4 May 2023 02:21:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pj1-f54.google.com with SMTP id 98e67ed59e1d1-24de9c66559so162023a91.0 for ; Thu, 04 May 2023 00:21:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1683184862; x=1685776862; h=mime-version:message-id:in-reply-to:date:subject:cc:to:from :user-agent:references:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=k0uCgsgICg06ULwwUlpnF7NHga2SA07ru4L2CzzSMCk=; b=iMuHuA7FVhcy58HBV4Lp3UqNUQznD9sAyAp7kpBbRTtZI2khg3fiq345QKRn4Cve/f kzB4SgbsTNQS3mDUjehF9BSxfadtGcPECESX+3y6LkD92+cG6VWTA83EXdQdaP/AEz3y V0lXSwFiAe1bln1IOPCGAuUfh4UGkdWd0MWsBBW1ytX3qpkfGtZT4gUkWr+bLN9iopq4 /8u1jjlgxr5qnkFiBv0KOrpQ6ehG7ryC9KIaHu+Ox/Ia+1RfErxdAjBvZFGeoB1Hf8c6 eBxi4rwoNB39X6zjOKUfmr2Euisj+yyq4dm9WOSlUGE26a/4fU9eF59Sus2g4EFO6cEV jBrw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1683184862; x=1685776862; h=mime-version:message-id:in-reply-to:date:subject:cc:to:from :user-agent:references:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=k0uCgsgICg06ULwwUlpnF7NHga2SA07ru4L2CzzSMCk=; b=cIJW+7N9Ehdd/C4r5bhThzndg1f8b+vGifvcAYyW3xUw2zGKqQUl83A9IWqfMD/MfV gEkV2I+9s/a/ELQkMHy107Ow56wB0/lqoHgsZTLjPSutsu6lFnDfy7l8Y+6EN2cdZvil 2Vg92EXFu4h0sQMRYWY+fKUabrbYHjL3qE3uUFzfhdp43ByK6/794M0XkzHlQY6UHSQ8 ijkaHyGL6MT/E9v8ZlMXRO2wZHdsYz3r4ThU+nyTQ3odGnDOMwk436C8k0AxNbUKkN11 F1sysroUpqIW0EHgLNWEfqX2aYtr/XiS4HQJSHRF0V9jTB/FkDnzXsWcdTiIa2fdK5Kd MvYg== X-Gm-Message-State: AC+VfDxDHe4kVrZVpbtM1sbR2idMkPECBVy/6jBvuCtJXM+BsMB6s6VU J0qbRg4hPFEx8k2ouBSga2Ut5OCEApM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACHHUZ484rLOtZMGNFDRrILhB4Qo6+XdVQZogNMdFZYmqBX11PtzlY0CNZEFLdYqJhgEjH1AjB/5/g== X-Received: by 2002:a17:903:228b:b0:1a6:565a:16cb with SMTP id b11-20020a170903228b00b001a6565a16cbmr3414765plh.3.1683184860518; Thu, 04 May 2023 00:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2405:6e00:294:9b84:3085:642d:94e5:ba0]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n8-20020a170903110800b001aaed55aff3sm1309137plh.137.2023.05.04.00.20.59 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 04 May 2023 00:21:00 -0700 (PDT) References: <87ildo5xlr.fsf@ada> <87edo2z2x3.fsf@ada> <20230430120555.3mydcm7qmbsf75v6@illithid> <874josy77n.fsf@ada> User-agent: mu4e 1.8.14; emacs 28.3 From: Alexis To: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv Cc: groff@gnu.org, man-db-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: Behaviour of .so differs between mandoc and groff Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 17:13:00 +1000 In-reply-to: Message-ID: <87zg6kwoiu.fsf@ada> X-Mailinglist: mandoc-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Jan Stary writes: > That's not a problem with symlinks, > but a problem with manpage compression. > > Why would anyone compress manpages? > How much space does that save overall? [snip example] > Tens of megabytes saved, in the whole system. > Absoultely not worth the hassle. i personally agree, but here's a discussion i opened on the Gentoo bug tracker about the compression of man pages in the context of using mandoc rather than man-db: https://bugs.gentoo.org/836367 in which i linked to this old thread on mandoc-discuss: https://marc.info/?l=mandoc-discuss&m=160666427213578&w=2 and in particular Ingo's comment: https://marc.info/?l=mandoc-discuss&m=160668087317110&w=2 (This is all a result of my stubborn insistence on using mandoc on Gentoo. :-) ) Alexis. -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv