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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:00:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 08/05/14 16:13, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 08:56:17AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> >> OK, very well. I just installed XFCE, rxvt, & samba 3.6, When I do an
> >> 'apropos xfce', is says 'xfce: nothing appropriate' .... I did a
> >> 'makewhatis -av' & still nothing .... surely there are some man pages ?!?!?!
> > Odd. If you look at /etc/man.conf, does it contain the following line?
> >
> >      MANPATH /usr/local/man
> 
> No ....

Maybe

	OPTIONAL_MANPATH        /usr/local/man

instead? However, /usr/local/man is a _default_ path and
should be reflected as such in this file.



> > And there are xfce manpages in /usr/local/man, yes?
> 
> No ....

Maybe they got deselected when building and installing Xfce?



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