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

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday crashcourse ca>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:24:19PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > "man -k" searches the whatis database. Looks like the summary string
> > > from RPM packages is included in that database.
> > ok, i'm not sure what that last part means, but is this by design?
> > because it's certainly just a bit confusing.
>
> Try this:
>
>   rpm -qa --qf '%{name}: %{summary}\n'

i'm still not sure what i'm supposed to be seeing here, or what that
has to do with the fact that the "yelp" package advertises itself as
being in the "rpm" subsection.  certainly, yelp doesn't say anything
about rpm in its summary string:

$ rpm -qa --qf '%{name}: %{summary}\n' | grep yelp
yelp: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project
$

rday
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