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Support more manpage targets #233

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bingos opened this issue Sep 4, 2015 · 4 comments
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Support more manpage targets #233

bingos opened this issue Sep 4, 2015 · 4 comments

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@bingos
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bingos commented Sep 4, 2015

Following a conversation on #pkgsrc IRC channel on Freenode:

[11:46] < nbjoerg> BinGOs: from what I see the problem is that installing category 5 man pages is not supported
[11:46] < nbjoerg> BinGOs: is there a good reason for that?
[11:47] < BinGOs> well before my time maintaining this beast
[11:48] < nbjoerg> I can see god reasons for at least category 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8
[11:48] < nbjoerg> 2, 4 and 9 likely don't make much sense for a perl application

I think we only have 1 and 3 right now.

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I think we only have 1 and 3 right now.

Right -- I suspect this would have to change in core first before EUMM can do anything.

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Leont commented Sep 5, 2015

I'm not sure what would be a good interface for this, but it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Right -- I suspect this would have to change in core first before EUMM can do anything.

Not really. Pod::Man supports it fine, it's just that MakeMaker is telling it that it's category 1/3.

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haarg commented Sep 5, 2015

But the location for the man pages comes from the config vars like installman3dir, which only exist for sections 1 and 3.

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Leont commented Sep 5, 2015

But the location for the man pages comes from the config vars like installman3dir, which only exist for sections 1 and 3.

Right, I forgot about that, though in practice it should be easy enough to fake that

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