On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:38:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: > > > >>>I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be > >>>duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and > >>>/usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming. > >>> > >>Or have a ghostscript-docs-x.y.z which just contains documents... > >> > > > > That won't be too convenient for people who want to read man pages. > > > > I'd suggest just using symbolic links in the /usr/X11R6/... directories > > to the /usr/... directories. > > But everybody is assuming that everything under /usr/X11R6/ (with the > exception of gs.exe) will be identical to the stuff under /usr. > > This *may* be true, NOW. But it ain't necessarily so -- and even if it > is, it ain't guaranteed to remain that way. > > I'm thinking of /usr/X11R6 and /usr as two different "platforms" -- so > the only thing that can be shared among platforms is <prefix>/share/* > (by analogy, think of a filesystem shared between linux, hpux, and > solaris: every platform gets its own /usr tree, but they can share > /usr/share.) > > [That's why the FHS puts man pages in /usr/share/man -- *presumably* man > pages are identical on all platforms. Not always true, but hey]
So, it sounds like manual pages should go into /usr/share/man. If it's OK with you and Chris, I'll run with this. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com