The following lines
# The following links are required for xman
dosym eqn /usr/bin/geqn
dosym tbl /usr/bin/gtbl
dosym soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim
which are present in all ebuilds for older versions of groff are missing from
the groff-1.19.2.ebuild file. I don't know about xman, but man needs these
links to be present in order to function and neither do the man, nor xman
ebuilds provide these links.
archimedes ~ # grep -n dosym /usr/portage/sys-apps/man/*
/usr/portage/sys-apps/man/man-1.5p.ebuild:69: dosym man /usr/bin/manpath
/usr/portage/sys-apps/man/man-1.6-r1.ebuild:82: dosym man /usr/bin/manpath
/usr/portage/sys-apps/man/man-1.6a.ebuild:79: dosym man /usr/bin/manpath
/usr/portage/sys-apps/man/man-1.6b-r2.ebuild:85: dosym man
/usr/bin/manpath
/usr/portage/sys-apps/man/man-1.6c.ebuild:92: dosym man /usr/bin/manpath
archimedes ~ # grep -n dosym /usr/portage/x11-apps/xman/*
archimedes ~ #
And just for good measure:
archimedes ~ # grep -n dosym /usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/*
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1-r4.ebuild:110: dosym eqn /usr/bin/geqn
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1-r4.ebuild:111: dosym tbl /usr/bin/gtbl
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1-r4.ebuild:112: dosym soelim
/usr/bin/zsoelim
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1.1.ebuild:110: dosym eqn /usr/bin/geqn
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1.1.ebuild:111: dosym tbl /usr/bin/gtbl
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.18.1.1.ebuild:112: dosym soelim
/usr/bin/zsoelim
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.19.1-r2.ebuild:105: dosym eqn /usr/bin/geqn
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.19.1-r2.ebuild:106: dosym tbl /usr/bin/gtbl
/usr/portage/sys-apps/groff/groff-1.19.1-r2.ebuild:107: dosym soelim
/usr/bin/zsoelim
archimedes ~ #