At least the following X manual pages' names clash with FreeBSD manual pages. apm keyboard mouse vga Fix: Install the man pages with a name prefixed with X?
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports->jmz Over to maintainer.
Responsible Changed From-To: jmz->anholt Still exists for 4.2.0, assign to maintainer.
Responsible Changed From-To: anholt->x11 Assign to new x11 ports mailinglist. At least some linux distributions have a "4x" manpage section where these XFree86 manpages are.
It seems that it wouldn't take much to install man pages with x postfix, which would enable for example calling X mouse driver manpage with 'man 4x mouse', while getting FreeBSD mouse driver with 'man 4 mouse'. To see how this would work, one just needs to rename for example /usr/X11R6/man/man4/mouse.4.gz to /usr/X11R6/man/man4/mouse.4x.gz. In case of manpages that only come with X (like s3virge(4)) adding x postfix doesn't prevent one to still get a manpage with 'man 4 s3virge'. I don't see downsides to this at the moment, but there might be some. As far as I understand the problem seems to be in getting to X manpages when there already exist manpages with the same name. In case of mouse(4), one needs to do something like 'man -a mouse' and then skip the first (kernel driver) page. Would this be a sensible solution to the problem? Are there any downsides to this?
Responsible Changed From-To: x11->freebsd-x11 While PRs for ports maintained by x11@FreeBSD.org have for some time been assigned to 'x11', this creates duplicate reminder email postings to the mailing lists. The canonical form should now be 'freebsd-x11'.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Put this under proper status in hope of getting some comments.
State Changed From-To: feedback->patched Fixed for xorg-server, leaving open for lesi@ to pick up for XFree86-4-Server.
State Changed From-To: patched->closed Fixed also for XFree86-4-Server in 4.4.0_7. Thanks for reporting!