Re: bin/51018: Update stopwords list for apropos(1)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/51018: Update stopwords list for apropos(1)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:46:29 +0200

 On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:40:00AM +0000, er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > The current stopwords list of apropos(1) contains some legitimate words for which man pages exist, for example, an, as, at, be etc.
 > 
 > Also, I came across a larger set of stopwords list [1], which I thought would be useful and should be used with apropos.
 > 
 > [1]: http://www.lextek.com/manuals/onix/stopwords2.html
 
 I don't think just dropping them from the stop word list is helpful, but
 there was a change awhile ago to try more agressively as second pass.
 
 Joerg