On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 04:02:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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 only suggesting symbolic links for identical information like man >pages.
I'm perfectly fine with just putting shared info in one location, however I should point out that cygwin doesn't put man pages in /usr/share/man currently. I wish we'd done it that way to begin with, but... cgf
