Re: "goals" for slink: FHS
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antkaij@rolle.cc.jyu.fi> writes:
> 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.
Well actually it is against our current Policy to require environment
variables for normal operation.
> 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.
[...]
> I don't think this is a hard one to implement. Comments?
I think it's inherently inadvisable to have major local hackage to
standard Unix utilities. It creates work for us; it's more code that
Debian has to maintain and keep bug-free. We already have enough such
code; we can hardly maintain it as is.
FHS modification of Debian must at least *try* to be backward
compatible for installation on FSSTD systems. That is, allow
installation of slink programs into hamm, even if some functionality
is missing (i.e., can't get at the man page). Perhaps there could be
a hamm "FHS" compability package which makes symlinks?
The only really hard decision is what to do about /usr/doc.
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