Re: usr/man vs usr/share/man?
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:49:55AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Ok, I know the issues with the doc dir, but I haven't seen mention of
> > the man dir. Is this hold with the FHS also to include the man dir as
> > well?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, no, it is not on hold. The main fracas over
> /usr/doc vs. /usr/share/doc was that during the transition, packages
> would be using both locations, and users would not know where to look.
> For /usr/man (and /usr/info), the tools that read from those dirs have
> been modified to look in both /usr/man and /usr/share/man, and thus the
> transition is transparent to the users -- very few people habitually use
> 'nroff -man /usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz'
For info files, transition has been made in almost all of our info viewers,
so it should be safe to put your info files in either /usr/info or the new
/usr/share/info file.
There are still some slight problems with some emacsen, but they should be
fixed soon.
--
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
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