Re: Behaviour of .so differs between mandoc and groff

[Alexis]

Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> 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.