On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:24:40PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> 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.

There used to be a config option in man.conf...  I don't know how ingo
orders things these days, but I would tend to think  there is just plain
old alphabetical order in sections ?

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