Stephen Hahn <sch at eng.sun.com> writes:
> 2.4. Manual pages
>
> In the interest of reducing manual page scavenger hunts, this
> proposal recommends the introduction of a new manual page section,
> 1G, to cover the introduced utilities. (Sections 1MG, 3LIBG, and so
> forth can be added as necessary.)
>
> Management of the manual path then proceeds along similar lines as
> the executable path in Section 2.1:
>
> MANPATH=/usr/man,1g,1
>
> to prefer the GNU project environment reference manual, and
>
> MANPATH=/usr/man,1,1g
>
> to use the GNU environment manual as a fallback.
I strongly object to this part: using $prefix/man together with $prefix/bin
etc. a well-established and understood practice which many users are
already familiar with. Using this Solaris-specific way of dealing with the
issue will only introduce unnecessary confusion.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
