Two thought on freebsd-manpages.

[Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>]

Dear all,

I feel compelled to express two thoughts regarding the package
"freebsd-manpages".

* Inappropriate priority.

  The manual pages should really be available immediately upon
  installing a GNU/kFreeBSD system, since the contents are vital
  for running a system. The package "manpages" is full of linuxisms
  and is distributed with priority "important". Would it be feasible
  to assign "freebsd-manpages2 to "kfreebsd-any" and increase
  the priority to "important"?

* Access ordering of identically named pages.

  Consider this response:

    $ man -a -w socket
    /usr/share/man/man2/socket.2.gz            (linux oriented)
    /usr/share/man/man2/socket.2freebsd.gz
    /usr/share/man/man9/socket.9freebsd.gz
    /usr/share/man/man7/socket.7.gz            (linux oriented)
    /usr/share/man/man3/socket.3pm.gz

  The preference of "2" in favour of "2freebsd" is unfortunate.
  It can be amended by a simple alteration:

    ### /etc/manpath.config

    SECTION   1 n l 8 3 2freebsd 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 5 4 9 6 7

  where "2freebsd" has been added in front of "2". Could there
  be any prospect in making "man-db" install such a modified
  configuration for "kfreebsd-any"?


Best regards,
  Mats Erik Andersson