> > No actually, this was brought up a few months ago,
> > and the broken
> > command (that seemed to still work) was removed,
> > because of a pretty
> > cool little feature with the new man package.
> Check
> > this comment in
> > man.conf:
> >
> > # Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
> > #
> > # If people ask for "man foo" and have
> > "/dir/bin/foo" in their PATH
> > # and the docs are found in "/dir/man", then no
> > mapping is required.
> >
> > With the new behavior, well not so new anymore,
> I'd
> > guess that there is
> > no need to do anything with most packages that are
> > installed in their
> > own prefix if the bin dir is put into the PATH
> > variable.
> >
> > -- DJ Lucas
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> >
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> I've never noticed this information, but you're
> right
> (I just test it), and it's quite very interesting.
> Thanks a lot.
Err...
Just to correct myself, and FYI, it doesn't work. My
first test was broken (bad typing), and after that, I
can't issue 'man java' without the right path in
man.conf, even with PATH well set.
So the correction is still necessary for JDK, I think.
Regards
G. Moko
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