On 25 Mar 2010, at 11:49, [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
Since I can finally find some time here and there, I'm back to TeX and
al.
From namespace(4), the man pages are supposed to be under /sys/man.
What is the canonical way for added ("opt", "pkg" ?) stuff. Letting
the user adapt his profile to bind the added stuff he wants
appearing in
his namespace?
I know this isn't exactly what you're asking, but man-page namespace
pollution has been something of an issue for years on unix. For
example in Linux GPM and XFree86 both provided mouse(5), which was a
big problem for me when I was first learning the system.
I would like to see Plan 9 man support subdirs as rc does. For
instance you can run ip/ping as a command, so why can't you look up ip/
ping(1)? Man pages for add-ons would have their own subdirs under the /
sys/man tree, and you would reference them with a syntax like package/
pagename.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis
