Re: architecture-specific man pages (was Re: Policy does not speak of translated man pages)

[Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 at 05:15:53 +0200, Manfred Wassmann wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Note that we don't have architecture-specific man page hierarchies as
> > mentioned in that section of the FHS. Incidentally, I think putting
> > those in /usr/share/man/i386 etc. is a misfeature - why not use
> > /usr/lib/man for programs only available on the current architecture,
> > like everything else architecture-specific? Or is the intention that you
> > can install man pages for i386-only programs on an Alpha?
> 
> What if that Alpha is a fileserver exporting /usr/share(/man) to a PC?
> If you have a program with different manpages for both architectures you
> would certainly want them both in /usr/share/man, wouldn't you?

Would I? I'd have thought I'd only want the one for the architecture I
was actually using in that case, and have it installed locally. (Such
man pages should be rather rare, of course.)

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]