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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:56:17 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: /usr/man before /usr/share/man in MANPATH (Attn: man maintainer)
From: "John Morrison" <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
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On Fri, June 24, 2005 3:41 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said:
> Hi,
>
> Since the FHS mandates that man pages go into /usr/share/man, shouldn't it
> precede /usr/man in the MANPATH?  I ran into this issue because I had kept
> a backup copy of the old rxvt man page (the one with YODLTAGSTART, etc),
> and, since it was in /usr/man and the new rxvt man page is in
> /usr/share/man, the old backup was found first.

My fault I think, /etc/profile also has the wrong order...

MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man:$MANPATH

will change to...

MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man:$MANPATH

OK?  Should /usr/local/man be first and should autotool be last?

J.


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