520034 – app-shells/bash-completion: perldoc should call /usr/bin/man, not just man

Bug 520034 - app-shells/bash-completion: perldoc should call /usr/bin/man, not just man

Summary: app-shells/bash-completion: perldoc should call /usr/bin/man, not just man

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Shell Tools project

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Reported:	2014-08-16 07:30 UTC by Alex Efros
Modified:	2017-07-02 22:11 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Alex Efros 2014-08-16 07:30:49 UTC

There is a problem with /usr/share/bash-completion/perl (both in bash-completion-1.3-r2 and 2.1) - to get list of available completions it execute `man` command. Sometimes users have own replacement in ~/bin/man which show man pages using non-standard browsers/pagers like vim, and this result in starting vim in background while trying to get completions.

I think it make sense to use `/usr/bin/man` instead of `man` to get completions.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-08-16 09:48:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 520030 ***

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-08-16 09:49:14 UTC

oops, not a duplicate

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2017-07-02 22:11:34 UTC

I'm sorry but this is not something I'm going to call supported. If you replace 'man' with something custom and incompatible with the original man, you get to keep the pieces. Hardcoding paths is a very bad idea, especially if the sole purpose is to workaround something broken on $PATH.