Re: Manual pages
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:34:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
>>This has changed in -21, the module extension is now ".3perl" as man-db
>>was choosing open(3) over open(2).
>
>This won't help the "competing extensions" problem, of course ... I
>suspect such warnings are unavoidable when core and vendor man pages are
>installed simultaneously.
Not in the case of core+vendor (which I agree is unavoidable), but in
this specific case I was suggesting he install updated modules in
/usr/local. I would guess that warning is not issued when the pages are
in different directories (but I could be wrong).
>If you're going to namespace the core Perl man pages, changing .1 to
>.1perl as well would make sense. Note that man-db has a hard-coded list
>of known extension orderings; I take it .1perl and .3perl should follow
>.1p and .3pm?
Not really. The section 1 pages in general describe programs, and I
don't see that a distinction between perl programs and those implemented
in other languages is required. Modules on the other hand are somewhat
different to library functions.
Regards,
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