Re: [arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'

2008/1/24, Aaron Griffin :

On Jan 24, 2008 7:09 AM, Dan McGee wrote:

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On Jan 24, 2008 1:12 AM, Andreas Radke wrote:

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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

Status on man/bash/filesysem update? Users are starting asking why man doesn't work for them more frequently. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)