> I'd have no problem in investing my time in discussing in autoconf or
> automake mailing lists about the changes in man pages paths.

> But, seriously, what kind of communication can I stablish, for example, with
> someone that blindly uses "right", "wrong" or "new" like adjectives for
> "standard"?  Or with who think standards are about personal taste?

The filesystem hierarchy standard is no matter of personal taste of any of the
fvwm developers.  Please read the current standard and you'll see that man
pages (along with other architecture independent data files) have to be
installed under .../share.

Fvwm does not choose the installation path of its man pages; the default path
is set by the version of autoconf used.  If you build fvwm with an "old"
version of autoconf, the man pages will be installed in .../man.  With a "new"
version they are installed in .../share/man.  The documentation in
INSTALL.fvwm reflects this.  Insofar, any discussion about the man page
installation path is off topic on the fvwm mailing lists.  I have no opinion
on which path is better, but if you do, and you think the path needs to be
changend, then the right people to discuss that with are the autotools
developers and/or the people maintaining the FHS.

If there are mistakes in the documentation or sources of fvwm, I'm happy to
take a look and fix anything that needs fixing.  But I kindly ask you to stop
pointing fingers at people, thus consuming time that could be spent to make
fvwm better.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt

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