Re: /usr/share/man

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> Previously John H Terpstra wrote:
> > We have gone to a lot of trouble to make the change from /usr/man to
> > /usr/share/man because we agree with this move. We do believe that the
> > symbolic link from /usr/man to /usr/share/man is a necessity for backwards
> > compatibility.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Wichert.
> 

I would agree with that.  There are a *very* large number of packages
which assumes that if it installs in <foo>/bin the man pages go into
<foo>/man.

	-hpa