On May 14 18:52, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Yes, this might be better discussed in cygwin-apps. I guess the setting > > of MANPATH is mainly historical. > > I'd be happy to not set MANPATH in /etc/profile if we no longer need it > for the standard installation.
I'm wondering if setting MANPATH was really ever required for the old
man either. In a tcsh environment, MANPATH is not set by default.
If you install the openssl package, MANPATH is set like this (in
/etc/profile.d/openssh.csh):
if ( ! $?MANPATH ) setenv MANPATH ""
setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man"
which results in:
$ echo $MANPATH
:/usr/ssl/man
I have neither problems to see the man pages in the default paths nor
problems to see the openssl man pages.
Corinna
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