The ugly /usr/X11R6 hierarchy (was: man : work in progress)
On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:07:10AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Manual pages for commands and data under /usr/local are stored in
> > > /usr/local/man. Manual pages for X11R6 are stored in /usr/X11R6/man.
> > ~~~~~~~~~
> > Sorry, I meant, what about programs that install themselves in
> > /usr/X11R6/bin and have a manpage in /usr/X11R6/man?
>
> It would seem that if the program is going to live in /usr/X11R6/bin,
> then the manpage should live in /usr/X11R6/man. There is no provision
> in FHS 2.0 for a share directory under /usr/X11R6, probably because of
> its inherantly machine-dependent nature.
I hope one day /usr/X11R6/bin/* will go to /usr/bin/*, /usr/X11R6/include/*
to /usr/include, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to /usr/share/X11 (with some parts to
/usr/lib/X11), rest of /usr/X11R6/lib/* to /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/man to
/usr/share/man. Then we'll rm -fr /usr/X11R6 and the life will become
really fine.
So, today let's not put anything new to /usr/X11R6!!!
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