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On 15.05.2014 15:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
[...]
> 
> You still have to be able to handle MANPATH.  Unfortunately the man page
> of man-db is a little tight-lipped on how MANPATH is handled exactly,
> other than that "its value is used as the path to search  for manual
> pages."
> 
> Whatever man does with MANPATH, it doesn't drop the default man paths,
> apparently.
> 
> [...time passes...]
> 
> Hmm.  Interesting enough, the current /etc/man.conf already contains
> /usr/ssl/man.  How long is it doing that already?  If I had known that,
> I'd removed the /etc/profile.d/openssl.* files long ago :|
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 


Dear all

AFAIK the behavior is as usual for *NIX search paths, with two notable exceptions:

* A trailing or leading colon means that at this position the default search path from the configuration files is inserted
* A double-colon (::) anywhere means that at this position the default search path is inserted

Refer to the ENVIRONMENT section of manpath(1), http://manpages.ubuntu.com/man1/manpath.1.

Cheers, and a pleasant weekend

Michael

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