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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:01:35 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Johanne Fairchild  <jfairchild@tudado.org>:
>I've been installing packages only through /pkg/.  I'd like to install
>qmail and it wants nroff (likely to produce manual pages).  I searched
>for it with ``pkg search nroff''.  No results.  Any directions?  Thanks!

nroff is part of the groff package.

FYI, qmail hasn't been maintained by its author since 1998.  There are a bunch
of heavily patched versions which work better or worse.  I use it with a different
set of patches and a the mailfront SMTP daemon rather than the rather creaky one
that comes with the qmail package.



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