Re: /usr/share/man

To: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman)
Cc: lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
Subject: Re: /usr/share/man
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:37:19 +0000 (GMT)
Message-id: <[🔎] E120SHo-0002GY-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19991221162609.H20732@mors.net> from "Wichert Akkerman" at Dec 21, 99 04:26:09 pm

> We could say that /usr/share/man is preferred (FHS) but /usr/man should
> still work, either as a symlink or a man-configuration that makes man
> search both locations.

/usr/share/man alone is not sufficient. Not all man pages are platform
independant. I'd favour keeping both therefore

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