[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man

[Xavier]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>> Am Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:27:01 -0600
>> schrieb Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Don't Andy's and Jan's words here contradict with regard to creating
>>> a man user?
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>>
>> This was my mistake. I had cp'ed the install file from the community
>> pkg and missed make my changes before the commit.
>>
>> So a -2 pkg is now up for signoff. I removed the unwanted man user
>> creation. Added a msg for anybody upgrading from 2.5.3-1 and earlier to
>> remove the user and change permission on the db dir. The cronjob runs in
>> quiet mode now. Added a backup array for its config file. Now it should
>> be ready to move.
>>
>> Anything else to improve?
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>
> I haven't tried the -2 pkg yet , but I noticed that with man-db I
> don't have coloured man pages anymore when using 'less' as the pager.
> To get coloured man pages, I need to use 'most' as pager.
> Is there anyone else who has this problem? It might be caused by a
> lack of a feature in man-db (I can't see why it would be the case) or
> a config issue. I haven't spent much time looking it up as it's a
> minor thing and works with 'most' although I would prefer 'less'.
>
> Eric
>

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130#comment31955

If man-db becomes the default man reader, should we use most as the
default pager, or export GROFF_NO_SGR=1 by default?