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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 10:36:36 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?
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On May 17 20:17, Michael Wild wrote:
> On 15.05.2014 15:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> [...]
> >=20
> > You still have to be able to handle MANPATH.  Unfortunately the man page
> > of man-db is a little tight-lipped on how MANPATH is handled exactly,
> > other than that "its value is used as the path to search  for manual
> > pages."
> >=20
> > Whatever man does with MANPATH, it doesn't drop the default man paths,
> > apparently.
> >=20
> > [...time passes...]
> >=20
> > Hmm.  Interesting enough, the current /etc/man.conf already contains
> > /usr/ssl/man.  How long is it doing that already?  If I had known that,
> > I'd removed the /etc/profile.d/openssl.* files long ago :|
> >=20
> >=20
> > Corinna
> >=20
>=20
>=20
> Dear all
>=20
> AFAIK the behavior is as usual for *NIX search paths, with two notable ex=
ceptions:
>=20
> * A trailing or leading colon means that at this position the default sea=
rch path from the configuration files is inserted
> * A double-colon (::) anywhere means that at this position the default se=
arch path is inserted
>=20
> Refer to the ENVIRONMENT section of manpath(1), http://manpages.ubuntu.co=
m/man1/manpath.1.

Oh, wow, manpath has its own man page.  The above information (leading
colon, etc) was exactly what I waas missing in the man manpages.


Thanks,
Corinna

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