Max: I think the best solution for now is to create fink man package and have packages like tcltk that put stuff in sections not supported by the apple man, depend on it. To that end, I've added a man package to unstable.
Eventually, I if this works satisfactorily, I think we should consider making this an essential package. You might be interested to know than the default configuration of man supports sections o, l and n. Apple obviously make the conscious decision to remove them. I checked my linux and solaris boxes here at work and they also have l, o and n man sections. -Jeff On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Max Horn wrote: > 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 > -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Web : www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
