On 2023/09/04 02:42, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > However, nobody told me so far that they like the idea of showing this > information, but one developer told me privately that they are not a fan.
FWIW I like it. Even ignoring ports, we've had problems just in base where people have upgraded and not followed instructions about removing old files, and been left with e.g. the fw_update(1) manual being displayed with no indication that there's an fw_update(8). > So, if many people use neither -w nor -a, how do you usually find out > that there are multiple manual pages for the name you are looking for? > Are you using > > man -f printf # but i would have expected that to be even less known? > man -k Nm=printf # but that can be quite noisy IMHO... > > Or? Typically locate/pkglocate for me, then sifting through the output. But I wouldn't run that unless I _already_ suspected there might be multiple manual pages for the name.
