On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:55:05PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/02/26 16:49, Jan Stary wrote: > > groff-1.21p8 ships with grap2graph(1) > > which metions grap(1) in its manpage. > > > > But neither grap(1) nor the grap(1) manpage seems to be present. > > Also, grap2graph(1) wants convert(1), without having that as > > a dependency: > > > > $ grap2graph > > /usr/local/bin/grap2graph[83]: grap: not found > > /usr/local/bin/grap2graph[83]: convert: not found > > > > Similarly for pic2graph(1) and eqn2graph(1). > > > > What do? I understand groff(1) is a legacy, > > but as long as we need it (some ports do), > > should we also get all its dependencies? > > > > Jan > > > > groff cannot depend on these, as they come from packages which require groff > in > order to be built. (catch 22)
Technically, that's not an actual problem, especially since this appears to not be needed to actually build groff. We could very well build two groff packages (one to bootstrap and the other with the extra run-dependency) in one single build.
