On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 02:36:09PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:18:33PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:40:11AM -0600, Marc Espie wrote: > > > CVSROOT: /cvs > > > Module name: www > > > Changes by: [email protected] 2016/04/12 03:40:11 > > > > > > Modified files: > > > faq : faq6.html > > > > > > Log message: > > > pretty sure network doesn't care about carp(3p) > > > > > > > This wouldn't be a problem if the perl pages were searched last. > > And why would you want that ? because you care less about the > perl manpages ? > > > Changing the default will impact other people, even if that patch > would work. >
The behaviour was changed at some point. For example on an old machine with 5.6 /usr/share/man/man4/re.4 and /usr/share/man/man3p/re.3p both exist man re shows re(4) not re(3p). So I am proposing the default be changed back. When that link was added the search order was correct.
