On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:34:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >>This has changed in -21, the module extension is now ".3perl" as man-db >>was choosing open(3) over open(2). > >This won't help the "competing extensions" problem, of course ... I >suspect such warnings are unavoidable when core and vendor man pages are >installed simultaneously.
Not in the case of core+vendor (which I agree is unavoidable), but in this specific case I was suggesting he install updated modules in /usr/local. I would guess that warning is not issued when the pages are in different directories (but I could be wrong). >If you're going to namespace the core Perl man pages, changing .1 to >.1perl as well would make sense. Note that man-db has a hard-coded list >of known extension orderings; I take it .1perl and .3perl should follow >.1p and .3pm? Not really. The section 1 pages in general describe programs, and I don't see that a distinction between perl programs and those implemented in other languages is required. Modules on the other hand are somewhat different to library functions. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
