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Bug 121271 - mouse.4x.gz is not easily accessible via man
Summary: mouse.4x.gz is not easily accessible via man
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29541
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2006-02-02 01:22 UTC by whereami
Modified: 2006-02-02 03:05 UTC (History)
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Description whereami 2006-02-02 01:22:35 UTC
/usr/share/man/mouse.4x.gz (Xorg mouse driver) is hidden by mouse.4.gz (serial mouse protocol). You can of course specify the full path/filename, but that is annoying especially if you found the man page via 'whatis' or 'man -k'. perhaps there should be a separate 'man4x' directory. I did this (temporarily) on my system, and both pages are accessible. From quick perusal, this is the only man page that suffers from this problem. There are other [1-9]x.gz man pages that reside in man[1-9] dirs, but none seem to overlap.

thang etc # equery belongs /usr/share/man/man4/mouse.4{,x}.gz
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/man/man4/mouse.4.gz,/usr/share/man/man4/mouse.4x.gz in *... ]
sys-apps/man-pages-2.20 (/usr/share/man/man4/mouse.4.gz)
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.15-r4 (/usr/share/man/man4/mouse.4x.gz)
Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-02 01:30:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29541 ***
Comment 2 whereami 2006-02-02 02:05:27 UTC
my appologies, i searched real hard for all combinations of "mouse", "man", "4x", etc, i could think of, finding nothing. good to know it's fixed in moudular.
Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-02 03:05:47 UTC
It's a lot easier to find the duplicate when you already know it exists.