Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:12:20AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > It was my understanding that this situation could be resolved in the same
> > fashion that the man and info transitions were. By making the docs viewing
> > programs aware of both the old and new locations, and back porting them
> > into slink, the broken tools issue is resolved.
> 
> AFAIK, it's just not possible to make Apache (and other web browsers)
> make both /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc accessible at the one
> http://localhost/doc URL.

So: is this the only *technical* reason for the proposed symlink farm?

I will be very disappointed if the *technical* committee decides a
change in each and every maintainer script in every package just because a
single package is unable to look for docs in two different directories.

Thanks.

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