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Only locally, only for you, and only short term. You are wasting the time of the person you are asking, and you are learning absolutely nothing about the context of the answer. When the next question arises, you won't even know where to look, you will only continue wasting other peoples' time.

>>thyris+(OP)
That's a false assumption that the man page even has the info you need. There are channels to write bugs against code, but almost nothing to file bugs against man pages. That's not even a concept to most people, that it's a bug when you apply a use case (say, to apply eui-64 to SLAAC in IPv6 in order to generate a consistent address) and cannot find the information using the man page. If you filed a bug that the man pages failed you nobody would fix it because it's not sexy, glamorous work. Its easier to tell someone to RTFM.

In this case, you would have to already know about the existence of eui-64 to know that is what you want. I've seen this many times, you have to know what the thing is already, or know what the answer is to your problem, in order to find it in the man page.

Total waste of my time. I don't care if it's free or was created by volunteers, that isn't absolution of criticism when it represents something and fails to deliver it.

>>gosub1+IU
Nonetheless, you are expecting other people to know the manpage and read it for you. That is a game you may be able to play with paid support, but usually not even there: They will be more wordy and polite, but in essence tell you to RTFM as well.

Bugs in Perl modules that are documentation related are normal bugreports and patches in the normal patch flow because documentation is embedded as POD within the source code.

Your example is very specific and weird (and maybe not even Perl-related). From which you deduce that it is OK to waste the time of volunteers because once one manpage failed you and you decided to never read any manpages again. You only seem to care about your own time, not anyone else's. That is not how anything works on this planet, either you deal with volunteers, where you have to make them care about your query by being considerate, friendly and respect their time as well as you would like yours respected. Or you are dealing with paid support, in which case you have to make them care by paying them for their time by the hour.