Richard A Downing wrote:
> Can someone point me to the discussion thread that decided this 
> change of man package?  I want to review the reasons to make my own 
> decision on it.

http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2005-December/054909.html

That's not the thread that decided it, but it's the best explanation
I've seen of exactly what's wrong with man, and why man-db works.  (In
other words, it's the reasons you want to review.)

In short: Regular man requires all sorts of hacks from the user before
it will work in a UTF-8-charset locale.  man-db knows all the hacks, and
can build a correct pipeline automatically based on the contents of the
shell $LANG variable.  (I would assume that it follows the normal rules
of the LC_* variables: check $LANG first, then $LC_CTYPE, then $LC_ALL,
with later variables overriding earlier ones.  But I don't know that for
sure.)

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