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Re: "goals" for slink: FHS



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Raul Miller:
> 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?

Manual pages and info files can already in several locations (/usr and
/usr/local), and all relevant programs must therefore already support
multiple locations. Adding /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info should
therefore not be a problem.

/usr/share/doc may be a slightly problem, since it's always been just
one location. However, it isn't used by very many programs (it's not
a standard Unix feature), and I think we can fairly easily fix the few
that do (dwww, dhelp, and the web servers, I think).

Thus, I think we'd be better off without the symlinks.

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