Hello,
sorry for the late response, I'm the man package maintainer and I agree 
with the idea to switch from man to man-db. I just sent a mail to fedora 
list about it.
Thanks.
Ivana

On 02/12/2010 05:53 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> Hiyas,
> according to the man-db[0] homepage all/most other major distributions
> use a more actively developed manpage suite called man-db, while we only
> ship this:
> http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
>
> In a package of mine, "man -l" is used to create a plaintext version of
> the manpage, which seems to only work with man-db. Could this be a
> Feature for F14 to use man-db instead of man or are there major reasons
> not to do this?
>
> Btw. I cc'ed man-ow...@fpo.
>
> Regards
> Till
>
> [0] http://man-db.nongnu.org/
>    

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