On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Bodo Moeller wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:31:48PM -0800, Tim Rice wrote:
> 
> > I looks like man pages are being installed in the wrong place on
> > non default installs. Ie. --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl
> 
> It is intentional that we use the --openssldir value rather than the
> --prefix value in such cases.  Files installed to --prefix are only
> those for which we can be reasonably sure that we don't have conflicts
> with unrelated software.  This is not the case for our man pages (our
> foo.1 manpage documents 'openssl foo', not some program called 'foo',
> except that if you call the 'openssl' binary using a link called
> 'foo', it will automatically behave accordingly).

Perhaps the ones that could conflict should be named like openssl_foo.1


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