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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