Why Italian man pages in 06-man.xzm ?

Post#1 by **Rava** » 18 Sep 2022, 09:53

Why are there Italian man pages in 06-man.xzm ?

root@porteus:/mnt/live/memory/images# find .|grep usr/man/it/
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man1
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man1/apropos.1
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man1/man.1
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man1/manpath.1
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man1/whatis.1
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man1/zsoelim.1
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man5
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man5/manpath.5
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man8
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man8/accessdb.8
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man8/catman.8
./006-man.xzm/usr/man/it/man8/mandb.8

The md5sum of my 06-man module:

Code: Select all

de244a63a0e8c8b2de609b2b0e0700b4  06-man.xzm

Post#2 by **ncmprhnsbl** » 19 Sep 2022, 01:53

i guess because man-db has a special italian section to it's man pages? ...and the section of the build script dealing with 006-man doesn't have a special provision for dealing with it?

Post#3 by **Rava** » 19 Sep 2022, 06:13

ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑
19 Sep 2022, 01:53
man-db has a special italian section to it's man pages

All man pages can be in any languages, as long as this language version of the man page got translated into whatever language that is.
The collection of non-English man pages in 06-man contains only the Italian ones as listed, and the amount of Italian versions are also rather limited.

So I wondered how it came be that they were included in the first place…

Me thinks removing these would not really change the size of 06-man, but I can try and compare the 2 modules.

Post#4 by **ncmprhnsbl** » 19 Sep 2022, 08:22

no, the question is: why does the slackware package: man-db contain /usr/man/it (and no others)
compared to say, ...see arch's package contents list: https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86 ... -db/files/
that would be for mr. volkerding to answer..

Post#5 by **Rava** » 19 Sep 2022, 08:42

ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑
19 Sep 2022, 08:22
that would be for mr. volkerding to answer..

How can we contact him?
Does slackware have an official forum or at least a wiki where one can ask such questions?

Post#6 by **nanZor** » 20 Sep 2022, 23:37

The Slackware forum found here is more or less the official one I believe. Patrick shows up once in awhile but surely not in all the voluminous threads...

https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... butions-5/

While using the Porteus RC's, I kept an eye on the lively discussions in the changelogs and request-for-current etc ...

Post#7 by **Rava** » 21 Sep 2022, 13:25

^
Since it is not about Slackware - Installation nor about Slackware - ARM the main forum of https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ should be the one to ask about.
I so happen to have a years old account on linuxquestions.org by the obscure user name of Rava.

Now I only must motivate myself to ask the question there.