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bug #43802: Add option to man_db.conf to specify subdirectories to search

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Submitted:  Thu 11 Dec 2014 06:34:49 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Thu 11 Dec 2014 06:34:49 PM UTC, original submission:  

It'd be useful to have a way to add to the subdirectories mandb searches when it finds an executable of the same name in PATH. By default this seems to be man/ ../man share/man and ../share/man. If you could set something like ADDPATHSUBDIR ../doc/man in /etc/man_db.conf, that'd be very useful.


See http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/man-db-devel/2014-11/msg00004.html for related discussion.

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