Re: /usr/doc transition and other things
Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
Santiago> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 08:12:20AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>> > It was my understanding that this situation could be resolved in the same
>> > fashion that the man and info transitions were. By making the docs viewing
>> > programs aware of both the old and new locations, and back porting them
>> > into slink, the broken tools issue is resolved.
>>
>> AFAIK, it's just not possible to make Apache (and other web browsers)
>> make both /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc accessible at the one
>> http://localhost/doc URL.
Santiago> So: is this the only *technical* reason for the proposed symlink farm?
No.
Santiago> I will be very disappointed if the *technical* committee
Santiago> decides a change in each and every maintainer script in
Santiago> every package just because a single package is unable to
Santiago> look for docs in two different directories.
Relax. You are not dissapointed.
manoj
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