Colin Watson wrote: > - <tt>/usr/share/man</tt>).</p></sect> > + <tt>/usr/share/man</tt>). If you do not create any links > + (whether symlinks, hard links, or .so directives) in the > + filesystem to the alternate names of the manpage, then you > + should not rely on <prgn>man</prgn> finding your manpage > + under those names based solely on the information in the > + manpage's header. > + <footnote> > + <p> > + Supporting this in <prgn>man</prgn> often requires > + unreasonable processing time to find a manual page or to > + report that none exists, and moves knowledge into man's > + database that would be better left in the filesystem. > + This support is therefore deprecated and will cease to be > + present in the future. > + </p> > + </footnote> > + </p> > + </sect>
I second this proposal. -- see shy jo
