To put it straight - I do not care if it is FHS compliant or not. But
there is old bug and making man layout FHS compliant does fix it so I
hope it is additional argument.
The problem: it is near to impossible to explicitly select English pages
in non-English locale. The reason is, man is looking for
/usr/share/man/${lang} and if not found it tries all possible language
variables, i.e. LANGUAGE, LANG, LC_MESSAGES so to get Englisg man pages
you have to do
LANGUAGE=en LANG=en LC_MESSAGES=en LC_ALL=en(probably) man
that is entirely stupid.
The problem is there is no English man pages form the man point of view.
English man pages are locate directly in /usr/share/man not in
/usr/share/man/en. And it is exactly violation of FHS :-)
The quite simple solution (that does not involve changing man pages
location in every RPM) is to put compatibility links; i.e.
/usr/share/man/
en/
man1 -> ../man1
man2 -> ../man2
...
mann -> ../mann
for all man directories
and we still need C and POSIX (to be POSIX compliant) i.e. additionally
/usr/share/man/
C -> en
POSIX -> en
This allows you to _really_ select man language by using
LANG=en man foo
as per manual page for man :-)
(offhand - of course every other part of system seems to use LANGUAGE
for that but that's different matter)
Assuming some consent I'm ready to send spec patch :-))
-andrej
