On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:16:54PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:46:11AM -0800, Douglas Walls wrote: > > > Ah, yes thanks for that clarification. /usr/compilers has such public > > interfaces, i.e. a bin, lib and man directory intended to be placed in > > $PATH and $MANPATH when necessary to override whatever the current > > defaults are in /usr/bin /usr/man. > > But if you're putting links for everything in /usr/bin and /usr/share/man, > and there is only the single version, then why would you set PATH and > MANPATH?
To pick one from multiple versions. Like we do with Perl5, say.
