Re: why does "yelp" claim to be part of the (rpm) subsection?

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:22:02PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   following up on a thread we've got going on the fedora list, is
> there a reason that "man -k yelp" appears to claim that it's in the
> "rpm" section of documentation?
> $ man -k yelp
> yelp                (rpm) - A system documentation reader from the Gnome project
> $
>   and even if the yelp package is installed, there's no man page for
> it:


"man -k" searches the whatis database. Looks like the summary string from
RPM packages is included in that database.

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