[gobolinux-users] man pages?

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:44:07 +0200, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no> wrote:

> will this be corrected in 014 or is it be being lazy with recipes?
>
> i was being annoyed by some man pages not being found even if they existed
> inside the programs dir. so i did a bit of digging.
>
> i found that while the available man pages where found
> under /System/Links/Manuals, the ones i wanted where
> under /System/Links/Shared/man.
>
> so i added that path to manpath in zshrc. but now i get a export dump each
> time i open a terminal?!
>
> anyways, is this me not telling the recpies to put the man files in the
> correct place, or the system not taking into account multiple locations of
> man files?
>
I was going to bring this, and some other directory layout issues, up to
discussion after 014, but as this came up now, here it goes.

This issue comes from that the default path applications configured with
autotools has changed, from PREFIX/man to PREFIX/share/man. I was about to
commit a patch yesterday, to Compile, to change the default configuration
options passed, so that man pages would be installed into $target/man, but
then I started to wonder why autotools had changed its default. After some
searching I found that is was due to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html) had desided that man pages
should go into /usr/share/man. As I'm for supporting FHS, not because I like
the ideas but because I believe in making choosing GoboLinux easy*, I think
we should adapt to this change and change where we store man pages. So,
should we remove /System/Links/Manuals or make a symlink to/from
/System/Links/Shared/man?

-- 
/Jonas

*) If everything that works on FHS, inclusive users, also works on GoboLinux
the argument that our filesystem layout breaks things can be dropped and
another obstacle for people considering using GoboLinux removed.

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