Mike Gerdts writes:
> > and have this expand to something akin to:
> >
> > man -M /usr/bin/../share/man ps
> >
> > (again, tricky for /usr/ucb which needs to be special cased, if we actually
> > care about that as the man behaviour is currently broken in that case
> > anyway)
>
> This would involve possibly overriding the behavior configured by
> man.cf. Since *Solaris ships with /usr/share/man/man.cf adding this
> functionality only in the absence of man.cf would be pointless.
> Overriding the behavior configured by man.cf just because MANPATH is
> not set seems like a confusing configuration option.
I would suggest converting (as a special case) "/usr/ucb" in PATH into
"/usr/man,1b" in the generated MANPATH. You don't have to override
man.cf completely, because translating this:
/usr/ucb:/usr/bin
to this:
/usr/man,1b:/usr/man
works fine and results in the expected man page search path.
> When taking it to this granularity, there are other things to consider
> at the same time. For instance, Should it also translate gnu info
> pages into man pages and display them when appropriate?
Not unless there's some obvious way to special-case that.
> I think that this work sounds like good follow-on work. If others
> feel strongly that /usr/ucb and/or gnu info handling belongs with this
> and is unlikely to derail the ARC case I could look to lump it in.
"Derail" comes up only when the case as written isn't suitable for a
fast-track review because the implications aren't obvious and thus it
probably should have been a full-review case. Writing it well and
making sure it's suitable and obvious are in your (and your fast-track
sponsor's) hands.
"Derail" doesn't mean "deny" -- it just means "we need a wider review
of this to make sure we've gotten the review right."
In other words, I don't think including either of those things is by
itself any sort of reason to have it derailed, and derailing shouldn't
really be a consideration in figuring out how to design things so they
work well.
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