On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:58:10PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: > On 11.02.2013 13:46, Игорь Пашев wrote: > > I have foo.1 in d/xxx.manpages, and only want to have > > bar.1 -> foo.1, no matter where foo.1 get its location > > or how it is compressed. > > You should not use symlinks, but source pages such tasks [1].
Please don't. They're less efficient because man-db has to open the file to figure out the target; over a large number of pages this makes a difference. > Install a manpage like: > > bar.1: > .so man1/foo.1 > > [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q4.html This reasoning makes no sense for the Debian system, because /usr/share/man will always be on a filesystem that supports symbolic links. Just use them. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130212175517.gc...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk