I know very well that various packages (including tcltk) are using mann, mano and manl. The fact that xman lists them doesn't mean anything to me, BTW, neither pro nor contra these directories.
But since you brought it up, let's look at it: At 7:11 Uhr -0700 13.01.2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Directory Section Name > --------- ------------ > man1 (1) User Commands > man2 (2) System Calls > man3 (3) Subroutines > man4 (4) Devices > man5 (5) File Formats > man6 (6) Games > man7 (7) Miscellaneous > man8 (8) Sys. Administration > manl (l) Local > mann (n) New > mano (o) Old Compare the descriptions of man1 - man8 with the other three. The former (original) describe different clear categories. But the three are completly vague. What sort of man pages would you expect in new, what in old, what in local? Hm, you could argue that local should contain only stuff that is installed "locally" - but what does that mean, after all, everything is installed "locally". What goes into "new" ? New things... ok, but when do they stop being new? And what goes into "old" ? Unused stuff? Nah that would be removed entierly. Maybe deprecated things? OK, that's at least a somewhat reasonable explanation. Overall, I think that the invention of these three extra man dirs were a bad idea in the first place, and I don't see them serving any real purpose. However, if you really want to, well, just go ahead and write a man package that installs a /sw/bin/man script (which calls man -C /you/conf/file), and uses an own man.conf, I am not going to stop you, but I am not supporting it either. Read, I am not going to make this an essential package. Feel free to let tcltk depend on it. I still have an itchy feeling about it. Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
