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Idea: download manual pages when not available



Hi all,

When a particular manual page is not available on the system, it might
be nice if man were able to download the manual page.

To do this we need:

A repository of manual pages. Done!

http://manpages.debian.org/
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/

A way to download raw manual pages.

A patch for man-db to check the option about when to download manual
pages (never, ask or always; default to ask), check which manual page
repository to use (Debian/Ubuntu; default to dpkg vendor info) and
params to pass to it and then download and display the manual page.

Any volunteers?

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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