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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  No ping man page
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:44:36 +0100
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On Tuesday 12 February 2008, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Anyone else noticed there is no man page for ping?  I know I've looked
> up things in man ping in the past, maybe quite far in the past and
> possibly even on a different distribution, but still I thought maybe
> my man page setup was borked but looking at:
> equery files net-misc/iputils (which contains ping)
>
> I see no man pages mentioned in the output.

Short answer: according to Changelog, use USE=doc for iputils until next 
version of iputils comes out (but be prepared to pull in *lots* of stuff 
meanwhile).

Somewhat longer answer: read

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158660

Essentially, building man pages for iputils requires openjade + various 
docbook/sgml/xml tools.
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