[arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 08:09:21 EST 2008


On Jan 24, 2008 1:12 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at 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.

-Dan




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