perl5.8 fixup

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Eric Hall wrote:
> 	Again, I agree it'd be better to get the MP installed man pages
> first if possible without doing things like setting MANPATH.  I feel  
> that
> picking up the "wrong" man pages is an acceptable (if undesired)  
> consequence
> of getting p5-* installs to work without -f.

I agree that it's an acceptable tradeoff (that we may be able to fix  
in the future).

> 	As well, I don't use the man pages for perl modules much, I find
> that perldoc MODULE_NAME is generally much better documentation.   
> Perhaps
> this is true for most people, I don't know.


It's true for people who I've worked with who use perl.

I find I often just end up viewing the documentation on CPAN anyway...
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