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qsmodo
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:01 pm    Post subject: [Solved] Where is the X manual page? Reply with quote

Since that is in section 7 according to Debian manpages, I tried to locate the corresponding package with
Code:

e-file X
e-file X.7.bz2

however nothing appropriate was found.

Thanks for any help.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi qsmodo,

Did you emerge xorg-server with USE flag doc?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, of course, this must be it, I haven't. I'll mark it as solved but probably I will live without it since I surely don't want to undergo hours of compilation. :lol:

Yet, any idea why e-file doesn't locate it?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello.

Looks like, the e-file utility does search for package names, not file names!
If searching for man file on your system, rather try with commands like locate or find.
File is in /usr/share/man/man7 on Debian

Edit: Note, I might be wrong since I looked online version (not running any Gentoo sys anymore)

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A long version: I wasn't aware about the existence of e-file command before reading this topic... I searched in the web, found resuts about the system of submitting tax documents to the US Internal Revenue Service and thought that evidently that's not it... And after that finally found a mention of e-file in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Cheat_Sheet...

A short version: where is the e-file manual page?

:D
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- Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6?
He comes back with 6 cartons of milk.
- Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?
- They had eggs.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello guitou,

Not really, see in Gentoo's Cheatsheet https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Cheat_Sheet#Package_troubleshooting

Quote:
Tell which (not) installed package provides a command using e-file:
$e-file vim


I was indeed expecting the manpage to be in /usr/share/man/man7.

Thanks all for the help.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

halcon wrote:

A short version: where is the e-file manual page?

:D


LOL it's nowhere to be found either! And there are no doc USE flags for this one.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Other programs that don't provide manual pages are QEMU and zathura.
Building them requires a lot of additional dependencies.
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