> Well, apart from not being very useful, it makes the man page for > apropos (or man -k) wrong! > ... > > Adding the (rpm) entries means that the whatis database is no longer a > "set of database files containing short descriptions of system > commands" because the things it puts in there are *not* system > commands. > > -- > Chris Green It appears that a decision was made to use the whatis database for other things and in the process damgaged the output of "man -k". If it is important to reuse the database for other things, then it makes sense to fix "man -k" to ignore the entries not related to manual pages. Bob Styma Phoenix, AZ
