Kevin Jordan wrote:
On 8/30/05, Tarek Ghaleb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
Well, the way I understand it, all the English man pages are put in
/usr/share/man and the rest (if the package even has any in another
language) are put in its own directory. I don't think
--mandir=/usr/share/man/en would work since if a package did contain
other man page languages, then they would get stuck in
/usr/share/man/en/es for example. While you could move them if you
caught it, what's the point either way? I show a mere ~285 (266
actual man pages, the rest are symlinks) other language man pages
compared to ~8734 (7299 actual man-pages) English man pages. Would
moving all the English ones really accomplish anything?
You can probably get this move for free, by using the
/usr/share/man/man1 -> en/man1 kind of symlinks. But this won't really
achieve anything: Man and Man-DB will still look into /usr/share/man for
English fallback manual pages when translated manual pages are missing.
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