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| -rw-r--r-- | man/7/caretaker.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/7/caretaker.pod b/man/7/caretaker.pod index 4601ff6..b7f3023 100644 --- a/man/7/caretaker.pod +++ b/man/7/caretaker.pod @@ -110,9 +110,11 @@ Scripts used by the package that don't belong into B<bin/>. Not treated speciall =item man/ -Manual files in POD format, separated by section (like man/7/caretaker.pod). -To be prepared for possible future support of other manual formats, it is -recommended to postfix each file with .pod +Manual files, separated by section (like man/7/caretaker.pod). +Files with valid POD will be processed with pod2man, all other files which do +not have a .pod suffix are assumed to be *roff source and directly put into +the manual directory (with a symlink). +See also L</"COLLECTED PACKAGE FILES">. =item provides/ @@ -242,7 +244,7 @@ These files reside in F<$PKG_DIR/.collected> (subject to change). The directory is somewhat similar to F<~/bin> - it is automatically populated by caretaker. However, this one does not contain symlinks. -Currently, it only contains the directory F<man/>, which holds the "compiled" +Currently, it contains only the directory F<man/>, which holds the manual pages from the packages (extracted from F<bin/> and F<man/>). This way, you can put F<.../.collected/man> into you MANPATH to access manuals provided by packages. |