id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc port 56313 Please consider removing the conflict between groff and mandoc teoric grimreaper "Macports currently declares a conflict between `groff` and `mandoc`. For manpage viewing, this conflict may exist (in the sense that you can only use one program at a time for a given command), but can be avoided renaming commands. For typesetting, mandoc is evidently not an alternative. Even the current `mandoc` maintainer agrees it can be useful to install both `groff` and `mandoc`, see [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mandoc/] (quote below): > Mandoc is neither a full replacement for groff nor intended as such. It is not even aiming to be a real typesetting system. > > In addition to that, and to the aspect [that] mandoc does not support many important macro sets nor all of the low-level roff(7) language[], there are two more reasons why i need both installed in parallel all the time: (1) A small number of manual pages - about 0.25% in the wild - still require groff and do not work with mandoc. (2) Having both installed in parallel is required for routine output comparisons - mandoc even provides a convenience script to do such comparisons. > > Besides, the mandoc build system provides support for renaming several of the installed files precisely to allow installation in parallel with other `man(1)` implementations (even though i believe that mandoc is a full replacement for man-db and similar packages - but conflicts are always a pain and can easily be avoided in this case)." enhancement closed Normal ports fixed janstary groff mandoc