orphan .Xr in manual pages
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Apr 20 07:47:42 UTC 2020
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In message <430119cd-2ef1-75c8-4922-c9f47d026880 at grosbein.net>, Eugene Grosbein writes:
>04.04.2020 23:43, Poul-Henning Kamp пишет:
>> List from a pretty virgin 12.1 system here:
>
>[skip]
>
>> ./man8/mdconfig.8 .Xr vnconfig 8 not found
>
>How should we deal with similar historic cases?
>
>HISTORY
> The mdconfig utility first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0 as a cleaner
> replacement for the vn(4) and vnconfig(8) combo.
>
>For now, vn(4) is an alias for md(4) and vnconfig(8) is an alias for mdconfig(8),
>so they are not exactly "broken links".
I think the reference and the symlink should just be summarily removed.
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