Hi,

On CentOS 7.9, the version of 'man' is 2.6.3.  This version seems to
have a limit of 50 directories for MANPATH.  If this is exceeded, which
sometimes happens with EasyBuild, 'man' will produce the error

  man: manpath list too long

Versions 2.9.3 (AlmaLinux 9.1) and 2.9.4 (Debian 11) don't have this
limitation (or the limit is higher).

Often (usually?) users are mainly interested in the man page for the
program they have loaded explicitly via 'module add' and less in that
for, say, 'binutils'.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this issue?  

Cheers,

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin

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