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Re: FHS: a new way of looking at it



On Fri 07 Aug 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> writes:
> 
> >  - allow people to work on debian, includeing moveing software to fhs.
> >    most things don't affect outside packages. info and man can get longer
> >    search paths. and for /usr/doc people can live with symlinking or searching
> >    also /usr/share/doc for a while.
> 
> ICK.  This makes it very nasty.  Bad all around.  I don't mind info
> and man having larger search paths, since this searching is
> automatic.  I do mind when I have to manually look at many places for
> information.  And it breaks nice resources that I have set up for
> online documentation browsing; eg, http://documentation.cs.twsu.edu.

for A in /usr/share/doc/*; do test -e /usr/doc/`basename $A` || ln -s $A \
/usr/doc; done

file /usr/doc/* |grep "broken symlink" |cut -d: -f1 |xargs rm

it's so easy to fix /usr/doc, so why not move ? 
warning : both scripts untested.

andreas


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