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Re: Policy 3.0.0 and /usr/X11R6/man ?



Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> writes:

> > Section 6.1 says: "You must install manual pages (...) in appropriate
> > places under `/usr/share/man'."

(..)

> Policy 3.* conforms to FHS 2, which says:
> 
>  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.
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 Yep, which is how I actually packaged it. Maybe the 1st sentence in
section 6.1 of the policy is a little bit too strictly formulated...
 
 Thtat's enough for me to know - however, there are still two things I
don't understand fully...

 1st, there seem to be a lot of programs in /usr/bin that are actually
programs using the "X Windows System":

$ orlok: /mnt/debian-unstable/usr/bin 
$ absurd? find . -type f -exec /tmp/checkx11 {} \; 2>/dev/null | wc -l
    105

 2nd, if /usr/X11R6/man is used (instead of, for example,
/usr/share/X11R6/man), this implies to me that manual pages for X
programs are not shareable among (same versions of) the same OS.
Why should this be the case? I could not really find an explanation for
this in the FHS.

Thanks,

Stephan
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