Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From:	"James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@×××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-dev] man
Date:	Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:08:27
Message-Id:	`m365qv3b8b.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org`

1	I see gentoo is currently using man-1.5.
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3	IMHO man-db, as used in eg debian and suse, is the better choice.
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5	Has anyone worked on an ebuild for man-db?
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7	I've started one, but onyl hve the most obvious parts done -- I still
8	have to read up on the details of writing ebuilds....
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10	Man-db is currently hosted at sv.nongnu.org:
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12	DESCRIPTION="Database-driven manual pager suite"
13	SRC_URI="http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/stable.pkg/2.4.1/man-db-2.4.1.tar.gz"
14	HOMEPAGE="http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/"
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16	-JimC
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