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Ferret7446 | 14 days ago

Because installing a man page requires root and a writeable root fs for that matter

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goku12|14 days ago

> Because installing a man page requires root and a writeable root fs for that matter

That's not true. The user-equivalent of the man pages directory on Linux and BSDs is `~/.local/share/man`. You can have your mandb index it too. You can achieve more complex manpath indexing setups using the `~/.manpath` file.

virgoerns|14 days ago

It doesn't need root if you set MANPATH.