Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udevil question for Helmut Jarausch

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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Am Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:04:17 -0700
schrieb walt <w41ter@gmail.com>:

> Strange, it works here.  I wonder if the difference is caused by your l10n, or
> maybe a bug.  Are man pages always in English?  I've been pondering the switch
> to man-db but I'm not motivated to deal with any fallout and disk space is cheap.

Helmut might have meant that "man stat" show the wrong man page, namely that of
the stat(1) shell command.  "man 3 stat" works, but refers to the more complete
man page fstatat(3p), which is still a different man page than stat(2) (which
is what "man lstat" will give you).

Besides which, I switched to man-db a while ago, in February 2013, with zero
problems.  My main motivation was that sys-apps/man had some minor formatting
bugs that have been unresolved for years, and I also wanted to switch to
something that was maintained.  And no, man pages are not always in English
(although personally I tend to prefer the original English man pages to the
German translations).

-- 
Marc Joliet
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