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Re: "goals" for slink: FHS



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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Martin Alonso Soto wrote:

> How about this idea:  We provide a little tool, let's say
> create-compat-symlink, that is invoked by every package installing man
> pages to /usr/share/man.  The main purpose of the tool would be to
> install compatibility symlinks between /usr/man/ and /usr/share/man/,
> using the set of rules shown below.  Suppose we are going to install the
> man page /usr/share/man/manN/foo.N (where N is a digit):

I think this is not a good idea. Having a man browser that understand both
/usr/man and /usr/share/man will be much more easy than having all 1500
packages in the distribution to invoke a new package.

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