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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:44:50 -0700
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On 1/13/2014 11:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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> In retrospect, it would have potentially made sense to use the same
> versions and packaging for the 64-bit as for the 32-bit.  That might
> have minimized this type of problem.

An argument could be made that since these helper programs are not core 
to groff's mission, groff does not literally *depend* on Perl.  That is, 
if Perl is missing, groff doesn't stop running.

That argument feels lawyerly to me, though.

If the scripts are extracted into a separate package, I'll be installing 
it.  I wish I'd known about groffer long ago.

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