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@@ -8,3 +8,13 @@ XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF. It also includes preconv, for recoding
multibyte manuals; demandoc, for emitting only text parts of manuals; mandocdb,
for indexing manuals; and apropos, whatis, and man.cgi (via catman) for
semantic search of manual content.
+
+There is an environment variable called REPLACE_MAN, that if set to a non-empty
+string, will instruct the slackbuild script to replace the stock man package
+(you should remove(pkg) it first, though).
+
+After installing, make sure to (re)create the mandoc specific "whatis"
+database(s) in your manpath(s), eg.:
+# mandocdb /usr/man /usr/local/man
+... or, if you've chosen to replace man, then:
+# makewhatis /usr/man /usr/local/man