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3890	Please prevent installing the whole man5 of the attr package.	yuksiy	lfs-book@…	"(
This ticket has been re-posted revised my following post.
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[http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2016-February/070820.html]
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According to [http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2015-December/070629.html],
man2 and man5 have already been removed in the upstream of the attr package.

However,
in [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.8/chapter06/attr.html LFS 7.8 ""6.21. Attr-2.4.47""],
while preventing installation of the whole man2 of the attr package in order to prevent overwriting already installed man2 of the man-pages package, attr.5 of the attr package overwrites already installed attr.5 of the man-pages package.

In addition,
it's hard for LFS readers to judge whether this overwriting is intended or not,
because there is no supplementary explanation about overwriting in this page.

Therefore, I suggest installation of the whole man5 of the attr package is prevented as well as the whole man2.
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(As far as I have checked at present, man5 installed by the attr package is attr.5 only.)

If this suggestion is not acceptable, I think at least it would be better to add supplementary explanation that overwriting attr.5 is intended.

See also the following post and thread messages:
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[http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2015-April/070126.html]
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[http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2015-November/070624.html]
"	defect	closed	normal	7.9	Book	SVN	normal	fixed		yuk@…