Donna Garverick wrote:
 > Mark Bixby wrote:
 >
 >
 >> Donna Garverick wrote:
 >>
 >>> how do i get the perl man pages to work?  got'em of course....but....
 >>>      -
 >>>
 >> export MANPATH=/PERL/PUB/man:$MANPATH
 >>
 >
 > ok...i can do that.  (do i want the perl man pages at the front of my
 > manpath?)

It's up to you.  I don't think the Perl man pages are likely to clash with any
of the MPE FOS man pages, so front vs. back doesn't matter.

 > i can even set up a local .profile file to automatically update my man
 > path.  but is that the 'normal' way of handling such a thing?  with man
 > pages for different applications being installed wherever....i can see
 > this turning into a messy maintenance problem.               - d

Updating MANPATH is the 'normal' way, either in the .profile of individual
users, or for everybody in /etc/profile.local.

You only have to do this once though after the installation or update of an
application.  And for my modern ports, and I think almost everything of mine
follows my current standardized layout, you only need to change MANPATH on the
first installation to refer to /ACCOUNT/CURRENT/man and that will still work
after subsequent updates.
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