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Description:
Documentation metadata library

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: documentation library metadata freedesktop man-pages

Install: brew install rarian

About:
Rarian is a documentation metadata library designed to manage and query information about installed documentation. It provides a compatibility layer for the Freedesktop.org specification, allowing applications to easily locate and access man pages and other help files regardless of the underlying documentation system.

Key Features:

Provides a unified API for accessing documentation metadata
Manages and queries installed man pages and info pages
Acts as a compatibility layer for Freedesktop.org standards
Supports both reading and writing metadata

Use Cases:

Integrating help browser functionality into desktop applications
Managing documentation indexing and search on Linux systems
Providing a standard interface for locating man pages

Alternatives:

man-db – man-db provides the man command and indexing tools, while Rarian focuses on providing a library API for metadata access

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 15, 2025 8:39pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	1bab0f23
Sep 14, 2024 1:42am		0	VERSION_BUMP	cc40b392