[Bug 387246] New: Tcl man pages obscure much more common man pages
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387246 Summary: Tcl man pages obscure much more common man pages Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Beta 1 Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: max@novell.com ReportedBy: sh@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Development If you have Tcl installed, "man open" will display the man page for the Tcl "open" function, not for the open(2) syscall. Similar for "man close", "man exec", "man exit", and many more. AFAICS this is because Tcl installs its man pages into /usr/share/man/mann/, the n ("new") section of man pages. Those obviously have higher priority than the other sections (1 = user commands, 2 = syscalls, 3 = lib functions). Getting the Tcl man pages first is very annoying for most users; you need Tcl installed for a number of applications that use it, but that does not mean that you necessarily also program in Tcl. Please move those Tcl man pages to another location so it's the Tcl programmers that explicitly have to specify what man section to user, not everybody else (i.e. 95% of all users). lnussel found out that there is even a man section (3tcl) specified in /etc/manpath.config . This would probably be the right one to use. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Reinhard Max
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