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Re: /usr/doc/ vs /usr/share/doc/



On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:35:12PM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> after getting "apt-get upgrade" all clean (not that there
> isn't a hangnail now and then) i noticed that i've got
> lots of stuff in /usr/share/doc now. much of it looks just
> like the stuff i've already got under /usr/doc.
> 
> is the /usr/share/doc stuff significant? should it replace
> the /usr/doc items? can i obliterate it?

You'll notice that /usr/doc/foo is a symlink to /usr/share/doc/foo

So you really only have one copy of the docs. I'de leave them alone
though, no telling what will happen if you delete one or the other.

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