From b09eabcaa7328f40ef57a95441636e27a5b8f74b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baptiste Daroussin Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 08:46:19 +0000 Subject: groff: remove X11 option and dependency Now that groff is required for manpages that are not supported by mandoc the default dependency on X11 has become a big concern for many people. From now the entire X11 option has been removed as it is only needed for legacy part of groff that have little end user value. The other part that was dragging in all the X11 dependencies was the ghostscript dependency which is needed for 2 cases: 1. find the path of the urw fonts which is needed for pdf generation. the configure script has been patched to stop using ghostscript to find that path, but directly use the one provided. 2. the html driver which calls at runtime the gs binary along with some binaries provided by the netpbm package. Given how little use it is, add a message to tell the users to manually install ghostscript and netpbm as optional dependency if they do need to use groff -Thtml. Requested by: many --- UPDATING | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'UPDATING') diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index e4cdeb051df9..cb8d271b252a 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ they are unavoidable. You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades. +20191002: + AFFECTS: users of groff + AUTHOR: bapt@FreeBSD.org + + with groff 1.2.4_3, groff does not depends anymore on ghostscript and + netpbm. In order to be able to properly use the html backend the user + can install ghostscript and netpbm from ports without the need of + reinstalling the package. + + Also note that the X11 option has been removed. + 20190930: AFFECTS: users of NetBox AUTHOR: kai@FreeBSD.org -- cgit v1.2.3