Re: "goals" for slink: FHS
storm@gate.net <storm@gate.net> wrote:
> Okay, lets kill this idea now. /usr/share already exists. There is no
> chance at all for using a symlink there.
Hmm.. so it does.
Someone else (I forget who) suggested symlinks /usr/share/man -> ../../man
/usr/share/info -> ../../info and /usr/share/doc -> ../../doc
That's probably a better way of doing this.
> It's my opinion that as long as man and info understand to look in both
> directories, it doesn't matter all that much that the content is split
> between them for the transition.
And what if your opinion is incorrect?
I seem to recall that there are other programs which deal with these
areas. tkman comes to mind. And doesn't tcsh have some features which
require it look for docs?
I think it will be easier to make our system tolerate /usr/share/*/
docs, and get lintian to point out when a package isn't built that way
than it will be to first fix up all the places where packages require
that packages aren't built that way and then fix up all the places
where packages aren't built that way...
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Raul
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