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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by Ferret7446 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:02AM (#47021905)
Because installing a man page requires root and a writeable root fs for that matter
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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by virgoerns on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:23AM (#47022307)
It doesn't need root if you set MANPATH.
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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by goku12 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:38AM (#47022395)
> 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.

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