24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
5:42 p.m.
On Jan 24, 2008 7:09 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 1:12 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Is there any certain reason why we don't stick with the /etc/man.conf file for all man related configuration? Why do we abuse /etc/profile for man's settings? We make it more complicated for non bash users that way.
What? Isn't that the direction we are heading? We are *getting rid of* things like LESSCHARSET and MANPATH, not adding them.
This is correct. The new /etc/profile explicitly UNSETS the variables that would affect man and the supported pagers. Dan is correct here. We are moving towards full man.conf usage