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by goku12 130 days ago
> Because installing a man page requires root and a writeable root fs for that matter

That's not true. The user-equivalent of the man pages directory on Linux and BSDs is `~/.local/share/man`. You can have your mandb index it too. You can achieve more complex manpath indexing setups using the `~/.manpath` file.