On Tue 01 Jul 2014 17:41:24 Dale Snell wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 19:20:57 -0500 > > Dave Kemper <[email protected]> wrote: > > I finally updated my system-wide groff installation from 1.21 to > > 1.22.2. I notice that two man pages new in 1.22.2, those for gropdf > > and pdfmom, were not installed in the upgrade. > > > > I don't know if this omission is due to a problem in groff itself, or > > in Gentoo Linux's groff package. If you have a non-Gentoo Linux box > > on which you've installed groff 1.22.2 with your distro's package > > manager, can you tell me whether "man gropdf" works? > > I'm running Fedora 19, and I have man pages for both gropdf and > pdfmom. The man command displays them both just fine. My groff > version is 1.22.2. > > Sounds to me like a packaging error in Gentoo Linux. > > --Dale > > -- > "A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought > down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about > which will dent -- the victim's head or your pan -- then throw > that pan right in the trash." > -- Anthony Bourdain, _Kitchen Confidential_
I know some distributions split groff into multiple packages, sometimes they separate out parts of groff which require perl into a separate package. Gropdf and pdfmom may be in another package. Deri
