Re: Two thought on freebsd-manpages.
On 08/11/2013 14:57, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> * 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
This seems a lot like a kludge to work around another kludge. If
socket(2) and socket(7) are Linux-oriented, why are we even shipping them?
Maybe the first step would be to split the manpages package so that
Linux-specific manpages are moved to a separate "linux-any" package?
--
Robert Millan
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