Re: Symlinked manpages

[david@rem.ods.com (David Engel)]

>    From: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>
>    We then have to lstat() _every_ page, and readlink() it if there is a link,
>    when we build the index. I guess it wouldn't slow down the program too much,
>    but why bother?
> 
> I assumed it would be easier to fix man once than to get package
> maintainers to introduce the new files every time a new version is released
> by the upstream source.
> 
> Easier yet would be to not worry about it, though I am guessing that the
> cost of the duplicate, compressed pages is significant.

Easiest would be to just try it yourself and pleasantly find that the
current man package (2.3.7-4) already handles symlinks appropriately
-- only one catpage is generated and all entries are kept in the index.

David
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