On 1/15/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1 - Fedora - Man-db is no longer being maintained is not needed.
> 2 - Debian - Simple to use that's why we do
> 3 - Gentoo - Don't need it, don't waste your time.

How does gentoo handle utf-8 man pages?

> Found this page for man-db http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/. Followed the
> link to a savannah page, noticed there has been no development on this
> project since 11-2003.

There may not be a release but the last cvs update was 5 weeks back.

> Just an idea, couldn't we implimit man, with something like the bash
> script from
> http://www.eglug.org/node/1759

Unfortunately it does not support the wonderful man features such as
MAN_PATH and automatic MAN_PATH based on PATH.

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