* Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> [2006-05-04 14:29]: > Stephen Hahn <sch at eng.sun.com> writes: > The classic solution works cross-platform and is well understood by many > users, the 1GNU etc. section proposal is requires Solaris-specific > knowledge. This might be acceptable, but becomes problematic if one takes > into consideration that GNU software has not only section 1 manpages, but > other sections as well. If you want (or need) to handle preferences (or > exclusion) for those with the ,<section> syntax as well, this quickly > becomes unwieldly. > > I understand that we need a way to set a system-wide default for MANPATH to > handle this, but so do we for PATH as well. If we can use /etc/profile > etc. for this, I don't see why it would be necessary to use a MANPATH > syntax differing from the common PATH one.
I'm convinced (mostly by learning that the section ordering is specific to our man(1) implementation). Will change. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
