* On [31 Aug 2005 03:21 +0300] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tarek Ghaleb wrote these words on 08/30/05 18:58 CST: > > > * I'm thinking or reorganizing the man directory and moving all man pages > > under /usr/share/man/<locale>. Any thoughts or reflections? > > How would you propose to modify all the packages so that their man > pages are installed into this hierarchy? > > I'm not talking about the man-pages packages, I'm talking about the > 100-400 packages that one installs during a typical BLFS installation > (including the many, many Non-BLFS dependencies).
Actually, some packages do install into that hierarchy already. So first one would need to identify which ones don't. With many packages, I think something like: ./configure --mandir=/usr/share/man/en would work. Of course, this, will not work for all, so maybe editing/patching a Makefile here or there will sometimes be needed. But for the LFS packages I think it won't be difficult. Also, the LFS packages account for the majority of the man pages that will be installed on the final LFS/BLFS system. man-pages comes with 3000+ Man pages and many of the packages for the base system come with a lot of documentation. But the question is: Is the /usr/share/man/<locale> a more suitable heirarchy? Considering, that there are already packages that install man pages in mandir/<locale>, would a unified heirarchy be more desirable? Tarek. -- "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
