man-db vs. man

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Fri Feb 12 16:53:50 UTC 2010


Hiyas,
according to the man-db[0] homepage all/most other major distributions
use a more actively developed manpage suite called man-db, while we only
ship this:
http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/

In a package of mine, "man -l" is used to create a plaintext version of
the manpage, which seems to only work with man-db. Could this be a
Feature for F14 to use man-db instead of man or are there major reasons
not to do this? 

Btw. I cc'ed man-owner at fpo.

Regards
Till

[0] http://man-db.nongnu.org/
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