Re: /usr/share/man

["Julie" <jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com>]

From: Rob Lembree <lembree@sgi.com>
> >/usr/share/man alone is not sufficient. Not all man pages are platform
> >independant. I'd favour keeping both therefore
> 
> Or even system independent.  Software installed here may not be 
> installed there.  I would also vote to maintain both, with clear
> guidelines as to why one might choose one over the other.

How is this going to solve the issue of system-independent
commands which expect to find system-idependent manpages
in /usr/man?  My vote is a symbolic link from /usr/man to
/usr/share/man.

I thought the "local commands manpages" convention was
/usr/local/man anyway?

-- Julie.