Danek Duvall writes:

> 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.

That would certainly be useful ...

> Failing that work, the documentation should be in a place that will be
> immediately available.  One of the biggest problems we've found with
> /usr/sfw is that hardly anyone knows it exists or can find it.  If man
> pages were available for utilities that specified their paths, those
> utilities would be findable (at least, so the theory goes).

... but the same issue applies to /usr/openwin, /usr/dt and /usr/X11, so
this shouldn't be a showstopper.

        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University

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