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Hi, |
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While working on an mdocml ebuild, I noticed that a call to `makewhatis' |
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for mdocml or the corresponding `mandb' call for sys-apps/man-db does |
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not create entries for gcc's or binutils' man pages. This is because |
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the MANPATH environment is suppressed in ebuilds. I asked about this |
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in #gentoo-dev-help, but did not get an answer as to why MANPATH is |
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suppressed. |
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What's the best way to handle with this in ebuilds (and the |
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corresponding cron.daily entries)? Sourcing /etc/profile seems like |
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a terrible hack to me. For what it's worth, sys-apps/man-db does not |
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alert the user that gcc and binutils (and /usr/local/share/man) will be |
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missing from apropos entries. |
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See also my mail on gentoo-user about this: |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/83293ea8876e5a8c80cfde4240d392c2 |
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Wolfgang Mueller / vehk.de / GPG 0xc543cfce9465f573 |
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