Re: [gentoo-user] Bringing mdocml to Gentoo, MANPATH woes

2017-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joerg Schilling wrote: > I do no longer remember what triggered the problem. Very simple tables are > working. I should have mentioned that "mandoc" is IIRC 4x larger than the complete UNIX "man" subsystem made from: man(1) nroff(1) troff(1) tbl(1) eqn(

Re: [gentoo-user] Bringing mdocml to Gentoo, MANPATH woes

2017-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 16:32:02 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > If you think about replacing "man" by "mandoc", please keep in mind that > > "mandoc" displays many of the man pages incorrectly. > > > > This is caused by the fact that tables are not correctly underst

Re: [gentoo-user] Bringing mdocml to Gentoo, MANPATH woes

2017-01-04 Thread Wolfgang Mueller
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 16:32:02 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > If you think about replacing "man" by "mandoc", please keep in mind that > "mandoc" displays many of the man pages incorrectly. > > This is caused by the fact that tables are not correctly understood by mandoc. Could you give me so

Re: [gentoo-user] Bringing mdocml to Gentoo, MANPATH woes

2017-01-04 Thread Wolfgang Mueller
> Try the -dev list for the MANPATH thing. Shall do that. > I think "cron" might be a better global USE flag than "sqlite". Users > will think "oh, of course I want the apropos/whatis database to be > updated nightly" with USE=cron. Unless they happen to know that those > databases are implemente

Re: [gentoo-user] Bringing mdocml to Gentoo, MANPATH woes

2017-01-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/04/2017 10:21 AM, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > > I post this on the -user list because it seems to me that I have issues > relating to several distinct components. If this is better discussed > somewhere else, I would appreciate some pointers :) Try the -dev list for the MANPATH thing. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bringing mdocml to Gentoo, MANPATH woes

2017-01-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > Hello, list. > > For the past few days I have been working on bringing mdocml to Gentoo > as a full alternative to man-db. In the course of writing the ebuild, > I have come across some issues on which I would like to have some If you think about replacing "man" by "man

[gentoo-user] Bringing mdocml to Gentoo, MANPATH woes

2017-01-04 Thread Wolfgang Mueller
Hello, list. For the past few days I have been working on bringing mdocml to Gentoo as a full alternative to man-db. In the course of writing the ebuild, I have come across some issues on which I would like to have some comments: 1. When submitting the ebuild through bugzilla, is it enough to not