On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 07:49:17PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
In my shell startup files, I make sure to update $MANPATH any time I
update $PATH.
This is not a common piece of cargo that Unix newcomers acquire;
historically, I suppose a lot of man(1) implementations didn't support
$MANPATH, but man-db has for decades, and I see mandoc(1) does too.
FWIW, with man-db, it's usually best for most people not to set MANPATH
at all unless manual pages are somewhere that can't be straightforwardly
derived from PATH. man-db will normally work it out based on PATH, and
that way it's harder for them to get out of sync.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
