> not just "quite a few manpages for other architectures" but *all* > manpages for all architectures are installed. > > two reasons i can think of: > > 1: they don;t do any harm > 2: it's particularly handy if you work on more than one arch and need to > view pages for other archs (or just compare) actually the real reason is so that one day we can stop building the man sets on the slow architectures, because the set is supposed to be identical between all architectures.