On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:58:30AM +0300, Tarek Ghaleb wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking at the way Man Pages are installed on my LFS system, and > comparing this to what FHS-2.3 recommends and came up with some > observations/questions: > > * FHS-2.3 recommends that man pages be installed under > /usr/share/<mandir>/<locale>. Some packages actually do install their > man pages this way, but man-pages 2.01,(LFS-6.1) installs in > /usr/share/man--which, I guess, is the traditional place to have them. > > * Other than man[1-8], I'm seeing man0p, man1p, man3p, and man9! man1p > has user programs, like date, cat, du ... Is there a reason why they > are not in man1, for example? > > * I'm thinking or reorganizing the man directory and moving all man pages > under /usr/share/man/<locale>. Any thoughts or reflections?
Is it worth an effort? How many manpages out there translated in other languages? Is there an ongoing effort to do such translation? -- Minds, like parachutes, function best when open -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
