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Re: "goals" for slink: FHS



On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 07:19:02PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> 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.

ok. But if I have package A with fiels in /usr/share/ ( gnome) then:
I must update a lot of packages (all man and all info-programs)

This is not a good thing

> /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).

and what is with: http://localhost/doc ? This link is nice. 

make symlinks, what is the Problem?


Grisu

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