Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
by goku12 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:38AM
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> 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.
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.