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From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
Subject: Re: ports/25576: XFree86-4 port installs manual pages with clashing
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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
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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?