George Vasick wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Raj Prakash wrote:
>>> usr/share/man/man7
>>> usr/share/man/man7/fsf-funding.7
>>> usr/share/man/man7/gfdl.7
>>> usr/share/man/man7/gpl.7
>>
>> Since those are not device drivers, the miscellaneous topics man pages
>> belong in section 5 on SysV-based platforms like Solaris, instead of
>> the BSD-style section 7.
>
> These are the standard names and locations produced by the gcc build.
> They could easily be moved but then we would differ from what users see
> on Linux.
That's to be expected, Solaris & Linux organize man pages differently.
> We have some other packages in SFW also using man7:
>
> SUNWcupsu/prototype_com
> SUNWgcc/prototype_com
> SUNWgimpprint/prototype_com
> SUNWlibyaz/prototype_com
> SUNWopenssl-man/prototype_com
> SUNWpowermanu/prototype_com
> SUNWsane-backendu/prototype_com
> SUNWsmbau/prototype_com
>
> What is the correction to follow for GCC, Linux or Solaris?
For some of those, that's probably correct, since I expect sane has scanner
drivers, and the print packages (cups, gimpprint) would have printer drivers.
For others, it's probably a bug.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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