Re: "goals" for slink: FHS
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 12:36:37AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> A other goal for the future:
> all man-programs use MANPATH and /etc/manpath.config
> all info-programs use INFOPATH
>
> with a little patch, this should no problem.
I believe the correct way of doing this would be to build a small
library for handling generic path-searching. This lib is then used by
*all* man page browsers and info readers. Possibly other classes of
software will find the library beneficial, too.
The library would have a config file and it would naturally react to
MANPATH, INFOPATH and other such environment variables.
Functionality-wise this is very close to the kpathsea library included
with teTeX. In fact, kpathsea could possibly be modified to implement
this.
Advantages of this approach:
* A simple library that a developer can use to bring in complex path
searching
* A single config file for man, info and possibly other things too
makes future transitions like this one easier
- and it's easier for the sysadmin too
I don't think this is a hard one to implement. Comments?
Antti-Juhani
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(Lee Davies in comp.unix.programmer on July 22, 1998)
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