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

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Matthew Miller wrote:

> 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.

ok, i'm not sure what that last part means, but is this by design?
because it's certainly just a bit confusing.

rday
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