When cleaning redundant packages (I had accumulated 7 versions of automake) I find that "man automake" no longer works... I must enter "man automake-1.10". Prior to doing the "emerge -C" the man worked, however I noticed that it was providing the man page for automake v1.9. I re-emerged automake, no change, and then emerged automake v1.9 (side-by-side) and still no change. Looking in /usr/share/man/man1 I see that there appears to be a missing soft-link: # ls -al automa* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1641 Jan 20 09:57 automake-1.10.1.bz2 I would have expected to see something similar to python's man: # ls -al python* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 27 08:16 python.1.bz2 -> python2.5.1.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4633 Oct 27 08:16 python2.5.1.bz2 This problem also exists for autoconf. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read man page for autoconf and/or automake ("man autoconf" or "man automake"). Works fine. 2. Run "equery list --duplicates | grep auto". In my case I found the following sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 sys-devel/autoconf-2.63 sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 sys-devel/automake-1.5 sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/automake-1.10.2 3. Remove old (unused) versions emerge -C sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 sys-devel/automake-1.5 sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r2 emerge -C sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 4. Re-try to run man commands... fail. Requires knowing what version of automake or autoconf is installed, and then entering modified man command: "man automake-1.10" Actual Results: missing man page: # man automake No manual entry for automake # man autoconf No manual entry for autoconf Expected Results: should display man page for latest (or last installed) version of automake and autoconf. I believe the root-cause is the missing soft-links in the man1 directory
