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main/mandoc: detect at run-time if the pager supports -T

Sören Tempel requested to merge nmeum/aports:mandoc-tagfiles into master

This is useful to ensure that we support tag files with mandoc if main/less is installed (which it will be on most systems). Tag file support in mandoc is extremely useful as it allows one to, for example, directly lookup options in a man page.

This patch is (hopefully) upstreamable.

Alternative solutions:

  • Implement the -T flag in BusyBox less
  • Add a runtime dependency on main/less to mandoc
  • Make BusyBox less ignore the -T flag
Edited by Sören Tempel

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