Danek Duvall writes:
> > I strongly object to this part: using $prefix/man together with $prefix/bin
> > etc. a well-established and understood practice which many users are
> > already familiar with. Using this Solaris-specific way of dealing with the
> > issue will only introduce unnecessary confusion.
>
> If we're to pack the man pages under /usr/gnu, then, I think it would be a
> requirement to augment the Solaris man utility to be configurable
> out-of-the-box to have multiple entries in MANPATH. There's a bug open
> against this -- 1146762 -- and is probably oss-bitesize-able, though I
> think it would require an ARC case.
I'd object to stuffing them away in /usr/gnu. As long as the rule is
to integrate these things in /usr/bin, with only conflicts going into
/usr/gnu/bin, the man pages belong in /usr/{share/,}man along with the
rest of the system man pages.
Putting the man pages in /usr/gnu/man makes sense only if /usr/gnu is
a separate ghetto for GNU utilities, simliar to /usr/sfw. That's not
what's been proposed here.
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