On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:34:00 +0100
Ivana Hutarova Varekova <varek...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'd like to switch from man 
> (http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) to man-db project 
> (http://man-db.nongnu.org/).
> man-db seems for me to be better choice then the original man. The 
> reasons are:
> * the upstream very active in man-db, man upstream almost does not 
> response and the last version was released in 2007
> * because of the previous comment man-db have more features then man
> * man-db uses Berkeley db instead of text file for the index of man
> pages
> * Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE use man-db
> As the first step I want to add man-db to fedora cvs.
> Comments welcomed.

I think this is a good idea. 

This would of course need to be a new package that would either not
conflict with or simply obsolete/replace the existing man-db package,
right?

kevin

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