On 2020/09/03 10:18, Carlos E. R. wrote:
workaround: # update-alternatives --set man /usr/libexec/man-db/wrapper
------ and
the reinstall zypper -v in --force man
accomplishes the "update-alternatives" invocation.
----- Having alternatives is nice for things that have several ways of doing thing (wonder when we will see an alternatives entry for system control functions...). That said, though, it is only helpful when there alternatives. What are alternatives to "man" that people would be using in place of "man" on the command line? If there are none, then why would this have been done? As an aside -- if you don't have access to email, nor manpages, this bug does tend to make doing anything, or fixing anything rather "challenging". Fortunately(?), restarting the machine with an image from 6 months ago was an option which solved manpages not working as well as a few other problems. So what alternatives are provided for "man" that required this change? Is this just 'churning' (implementing changes for the sake of staying busy) or was there a real demand & need for alternative manpages. Note -- I'm not talking about 1-2 people, since I've been told in the past that a few, or a single user's use-case isn't sufficient for for the distro to change things and alternatives won't be provided in such cases. So... Someone want to explain why this was done? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org