Hi Dmitrij and Vadim,

Vadim Zhukov wrote on Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:57:28AM +0400:
> 09.05.2014 2:03 "Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <[email protected]>:

>> Why not shorten "man-pages-posix" to just "posix"?

That's what i originally suggested, too:

  From: Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
  Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:45:56 +0100
  To: Vadim Zhukov <[email protected]>
  Cc: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: POSIX standard as manual pages
  [...]
  Do not install these manuals to /usr/local/man/,
  but to a dedicated directory, something like
    /usr/local/share/doc/posix/man/man{1,3}/*.{1,3}

One advantage is that if any other POSIX documentation should ever
show up in ports, it could go into share/doc/posix, too.
There is no danger of clashes, posix/man is quite clear,
man-pages-posix/man somewhat redundant.

> It's upstream name, FWIW.

The argument that a port should follow upstream's name (unless it is
very badly chosen) and that most subdirectories of /usr/local/share/doc/
follow the respective ports' names is a valid one.

> I won't mind to change actual folder if there will be a real reason.
> You won't go to this folder directly anyway, will you?

I already have your port installed because it is useful for me
when doing work regarding POSIX conformance and when doing work
regarding HISTORY sections.  I already cd'ed into that directory
several times, mostly to do multiple consecutive grep -R commands.
Given that all this is still man(7), not mdoc(7), the new apropos
is not yet very helpful, so searching still needs to be done the
old way.

Then again, i don't feel strongly either way, both paths seem
acceptable to me.  It's your port, and you are more used to ports
naming conventions, so you should decide this detail, i think.

Yours,
  Ingo

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