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Bug 296555 - x11-base/xorg-server: `man 7 X` is missing
Summary: x11-base/xorg-server: `man 7 X` is missing
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2009-12-11 20:42 UTC by Anatoli Bobylev
Modified: 2009-12-16 06:31 UTC (History)
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Description Anatoli Bobylev 2009-12-11 20:42:10 UTC 
man 7 X produces no output. The file /usr/share/man/man7/X.7.bz2 does not exist. X server emerged with xorg-x11 meta package. doc use flag is set.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type man 7 X at the terminal


Actual Results:  
No man info.

Expected Results:  
The man page for X is shown.
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-12-15 13:46:57 UTC 
I'm not sure where you got the idea that `man 7 X` should print anything at all, but moving to maintainers...
Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-12-15 17:37:47 UTC 
There's already a "man X"... what more do you need?
Comment 3 Anatoli Bobylev 2009-12-15 22:55:53 UTC 
The package xorg-docs was somehow removed from the main tree and because of this man X (or man 7 X for that matter) does not show anything.

What is the way to get X docs?
Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-12-16 06:31:24 UTC 
You can grab the last version of the ebuild an the 10 megabytes worth of patches we had on xorg-docs and put it in an overlay.

Or you can grab the ebuild, update it to the latest released version and maybe even send it to us so we can put it back in portage.

As for man X, you can use man Xorg instead. And if you're looking for other X related info, google and ftp.x.org are pretty much all you'll ever need.

Thanks