Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:20:28 GMT From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/25576: XFree86-4 port installs manual pages with clashing names Message-ID: <200411042220.iA4MKSP6062606@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/25576; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, dot@dotat.at Cc: Subject: Re: ports/25576: XFree86-4 port installs manual pages with clashing names Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:16:44 +0100 It seems that it wouldn't take much to install man pages with x postfix, which would enable for example calling X mouse driver manpage with 'man 4x mouse', while getting FreeBSD mouse driver with 'man 4 mouse'. To see how this would work, one just needs to rename for example /usr/X11R6/man/man4/mouse.4.gz to /usr/X11R6/man/man4/mouse.4x.gz. In case of manpages that only come with X (like s3virge(4)) adding x postfix doesn't prevent one to still get a manpage with 'man 4 s3virge'. I don't see downsides to this at the moment, but there might be some. As far as I understand the problem seems to be in getting to X manpages when there already exist manpages with the same name. In case of mouse(4), one needs to do something like 'man -a mouse' and then skip the first (kernel driver) page. Would this be a sensible solution to the problem? Are there any downsides to this?
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