Re: man-db vs. man

2010-02-24 Thread Ivana Hutarova Varekova
Hello, sorry for the late response, I'm the man package maintainer and I agree with the idea to switch from man to man-db. I just sent a mail to fedora list about it. Thanks. Ivana On 02/12/2010 05:53 PM, Till Maas wrote: Hiyas, according to the man-db[0] homepage all/most other major

man-db vs. man

2010-02-12 Thread Till Maas
Hiyas, according to the man-db[0] homepage all/most other major distributions use a more actively developed manpage suite called man-db, while we only ship this: http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ In a package of mine, man -l is used to create a plaintext version of the manpage, which

Re: man-db vs. man

2010-02-12 Thread Hans Ulrich Niedermann
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:53:50 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: In a package of mine, man -l is used to create a plaintext version of the manpage, which seems to only work with man-db. Could this be a Feature for F14 to use man-db instead of man or are there major reasons not to do

Re: man-db vs. man

2010-02-12 Thread Sir Gallantmon
Couldn't you still do something similar with man-db to get the desired effect? On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Hans Ulrich Niedermann h...@n-dimensional.de wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:53:50 +0100 Till Maas opensou...@till.name wrote: In a package of mine, man -l is used to create a