Subject: bug#10712: $MANPATH is ignored by man.el

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:09:06 -0500

[email-masked] wrote:

> That's because $MANPATH is ignored by man.el.

It uses man -k (aka apropos). Presumably your MANPATH includes things
that are not in your system's apropos database.