Symlinked manpages

[Matt Birkholz <birkholz@primenet.com>]

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   From: herbert@greathan.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu)
   Newsgroups: greathan.lists.comp.os.linux.distributions.debian.user
   Date: 4 Aug 1995 14:57:18 +1000
   Organization: Host greathan in Sydney, Australia
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   In a number of packages (such as gcc-2.6.3-3), there are symlinked
   manpages.  It seems that this could (and should) be replaced by the
   .so directive as that would enable man to share the cat pages between
   two manpages.  So could all package maintainers whose package contains
   symlinked manpages use '.so' instead, please?

What is wrong with man that it cannot share preformatted manpages between
symlinked source manpages?  Maybe it would be easier to fix man (sarcasm
intended).

Matt Birkholz <birkholz@midnight.com.>
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