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bin/man is practically hopeless
I tried to remove the DB_File prerequisite, but in doing so I noticed that this program in heavily tied to unix utilities not present in PerlPowerTools and depends on various settings unlikely to exist in most modern situations. It certainly doesn't have a hope of working on non-Unix systems where there is no man database.
I've removed bin/man from MANIFEST.
Part of this removal was motivated by
- Ubuntu does not include the
DB_Filemodule (or many other things in the Perl Standard Library) DB_Fileis for Berkeley DB v1, which is ancient and unavailable- The Perl 4 code could use some modernization and refactoring