On Aug 03, Joey Hess wrote: > One idea that comes to mind is to make any package that uses /usr/share/man > depend on some package. This might be "man-db (>= 2.3.10-69g)" which is the > first version that support /usr/share/man. Or it might need to be some other > package which itself conflicts with old versions of all the man browsers out > there, to ensure only new ones are installed. > > The problem with this idea of course is it means the majority of packages > have a dependancy added to them. This doesn't seem like a large drawback in > my eyes, especially because the average package depends on (checks) 2.57 > packages already and it dpkg seems to be handling that fine.
Better yet, require manpage readers that understand /usr/share/man to provide the virtual package 'fhs-man-browser' (or some better name). Then we can require all packages that include /usr/share/man/man?/* to depend on the virtual package fhs-man-browser. Only drawback is you can't have a system without a manpage reader installed (some people consider it bloat... go figure :-). Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Get your Debian 2.1 CD-ROMs | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/ | | | | | Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz | Visit the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: | | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8 | <*> http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/ <*> | =============================================================================
