Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:01:37AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
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>> Ever install a package in ~? It does come up... ./configure
>> --prefix=${HOME}
>>
>
> Then executables go in ~/bin and man pages in ~/man. Thus ../man works
> just fine. What's the special case here?
>
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>> I also know of at least one major site that uses
>> /pkg/${PKG}/(bin,man,info,lib} etc. Right now they have the notion of
>> "subscribing" to a package, which basically puts /pkg/${PKG}/bin in the
>> PATH, and /pkg/${PKG}/man in the MANPATH.
>>
>
> Ditto here.
>
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>> It would be nicer if they only had to worry about PATH, and didn't have
>> to worry about MANPATH being out of sync with PATH.
>>
>
> Sure, absolutely. But if Mike's proposal is to look in ../man, then this
> likely handles 99% of the cases or more. Show me a case where this doesn't
> work today. Otherwise, why not push fixing this hole until we actually
> find that the hole exists?
>
Ah, I misunderstood... I thought you were arguing against searching
../man, since that's not the case, I'll shut up now. :-)
- Garrett
> Danek
>
