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 ~ #
i can see the geqn and gtbl links being required, but sys-apps/man doesnt refer to zsoelim anywhere that i can see ...
1.19.2-r1 has geqn and gtbl again