On 8/1/2000 Mike Werner wrote:
What I'm wondering is would it be safe for me to just move all the man pages under /usr/man to /usr/share/man and then update the links under alternatives?
moving anything under /usr/* (excluding /usr/local which belongs to you) is a very bad idea, this is because the packaging system, dpkg, `owns' everything there, if you start moving things around it will become confused (read broken).
that is the price you pay for a nice packaging system, and also why there are still many slackware enthusiasts ;-)
better option is to report a bug against every package that is leaving dangling links laying around.
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