On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jim Kingdon wrote: ]As people who were in New York will recall, we (very) briefly ]discussed the subject of /usr/share/man on Friday. I asked Cristian ]about this today; he said that he had no desire to switch from ]/usr/man to /usr/share/man (if I understood him correctly the ]rationale was that Unix has used /usr/man since time immemorial and ]although there is a certain logic to /usr/share/man there isn't a ]compelling reason to switch).
I more often see /usr/man as a symbolic link to /usr/share/man for backward compatability. I've also noticed more and more applications using /usr/share for common files. Personally, I would vote for /usr/share/man, but I don't think it matters much. -s ] ](feel free to forward this message to fhs-discuss if desired). ] ] ]-- ] ]To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
