Re: strange man behavior
Dale Scheetz writes:
> I know that I am running a patchwork quilt of a stitched together system,
> but often when I try to man something, I get a large quantity of the
> following:
>
> man: can't open /usr/man/man1/clrunimap.1: No such file or directory
> man: warning: /usr/man/man1/clrunimap.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
> request
> man: warning: /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz is a dangling symlink
> man: can't open /usr/man/man1/fgconsole.1: No such file or directory
> man: warning: /usr/man/man1/fgconsole.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so'
> request
> man: warning: /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz is a dangling symlink
>
> Now, undocumented.7.gz is provided by the manpages package, but man-db
> doesn't even suggest manpages.
>
> I would suggest that man-db should recommend manpages, or at the very
> least suggest it.
Mmmm... As there are several manpage packages for other languages,
maybe it should nice to allow some user to only install manpages in
his native language (long-run thought ;)
Then the "undocumented" manpage, which should be kept as many packages
still only have english doc, should probably be moved to base-files ?
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