* On [31 Aug 2005 02:58 +0300] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * I'm thinking or reorganizing the man directory and moving all man pages
>   under /usr/share/man/<locale>. Any thoughts or reflections?

I agree with the fact that most of the man pages are already in English
and all install in man/man[1-8]. Using

  .configure --mandir=/usr/share/man/en

will *only* work for packages that do not come with man pages in other
languages. So for the rest of the packages, some changes will need to be
made to the Makefiles. It seems like too much work to accomplish too
little. Indeed, it is the upstream developers who should try to conform
to FHS. Also, I don't know if there are distros that are using a strict
man/<locale> hierarchy.

Still, I think conforming to standards is not a bad thing.  I'll go
ahead and toy around with relocating man pages, and report back in a
couple of weeks.

Thank you all for the feedback:-)

Tarek

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