Re: man-db vs. man

2010-02-24 Thread Ivana Hutarova Varekova
Hello, sorry for the late response, I'm the man package maintainer and I agree with the idea to switch from man to man-db. I just sent a mail to fedora list about it. Thanks. Ivana On 02/12/2010 05:53 PM, Till Maas wrote: > Hiyas, > according to the man-db[0] homepage all/most other major distri

Re: man-db vs. man

2010-02-12 Thread Sir Gallantmon
Couldn't you still do something similar with man-db to get the desired effect? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Hans Ulrich Niedermann < h...@n-dimensional.de> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:53:50 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > In a package of mine, "man -l" is used to create a plaintext versio

Re: man-db vs. man

2010-02-12 Thread Hans Ulrich Niedermann
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:53:50 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > In a package of mine, "man -l" is used to create a plaintext version > of the manpage, which seems to only work with man-db. Could this be a > Feature for F14 to use man-db instead of man or are there major > reasons not to do this? If you n

man-db vs. man

2010-02-12 Thread Till Maas
Hiyas, according to the man-db[0] homepage all/most other major distributions use a more actively developed manpage suite called man-db, while we only ship this: http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ In a package of mine, "man -l" is used to create a plaintext version of the manpage, which s