2008/1/24, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jan 24, 2008 7:09 AM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2008 1:12 AM, Andreas Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any certain reason why we don't stick with the /etc/man.conf > > > file for all man related configuration? Why do we abuse /etc/profile for > > > man's settings? We make it more complicated for non bash users that way. > > > > What? Isn't that the direction we are heading? We are *getting rid of* > > things like LESSCHARSET and MANPATH, not adding them. > > This is correct. The new /etc/profile explicitly UNSETS the variables > that would affect man and the supported pagers. Dan is correct here. > We are moving towards full man.conf usage >
Status on man/bash/filesysem update? Users are starting asking why man doesn't work for them more frequently. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
