Hi Alejandro, > We don't have full control, but we have considerable control, > since I maintain the Linux man-pages.
And it's great you're on the list. For those who don't know how Linux man pages are structured, you're referring to https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. So not the pages from individual projects like Postfix, Samba, Git, curl, etc. On this out of date system, the *.gz man pages under /usr/share/man, so ignoring /usr/local/man, come from about 600 packages. Package man-pages is the biggest supplier of those at about 17% of the man-page files, but that still leaves quite a few others. More important, though, are the systems processing man pages which won't understand .MR. man pages written to be compatible with those will have to ignore .MR or have some local test to decide whether their internal macro should use .MR because it's available or stick to the tried and tested method. -- Cheers, Ralph.
