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RE: [BUG] XFree86-man and openssl define MANPATH in /etc/profile. d


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> /etc/profile.d
> 
> 
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
> 
>> I have been having trouble find manual pages with man for some time,
>> but I haven't had time to investigate it further, because
>> 
>>     unset MANPATH
>> 
>> always restored the functionality. Today I found out that the
>> variable was defined in 
>> 
>>     root@w2kpicasso:/etc/profile.d# grep MANPATH *.sh
>>     XFree86-man.sh:export MANPATH="${MANPATH}:/usr/X11R6/man"
>>     openssl.sh:export MANPATH="${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man"
>> 
>> I don't think XFree86-man or openssl should define MANPATH, because
>> if it is set, all break in /usr/share/misc/man.conf. [snip]
>> Would the maintainers check the latest packages. In the mean time
>> I'm removing these *.sh files. 
>> 
>> Jari
> 
> FWIW, the current version of the man package already has both of the
> above paths in /usr/share/misc/man.conf, so the /etc/profile.d
> scripts should be removed...

and from /etc/profile?

J.


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