On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:20:49AM -0700, Dermot McCluskey wrote:
> As for the manpages, I think the options are:
> - leave them in the standard locations:
> /usr/share/man/man1 - 2 manpages
> /usr/share/man/man3 - 758 manpages
> /usr/share/man/mann - 179 manpages
>
> - use alternate dirs for some or all of the pages, eg
> /usr/share/man/man3tcl
> /usr/share/man/man3tk
> (possible leave the section 1 and/or section n dirs alone?)
> Note: there is already an empty /usr/share/man/mann directory
> in Solaris, created by SUNWman.
This would be my preference, if I understand you correctly --
- keep section 1 pages in place
- keep section 3 pages in place (tcl/tk C APIs)
- put section n pages into new section 3 subsections (tcl/tk tcl APIs)
and not deliver anything to section n.
> - only install the 2 section 1 manpages - dump the rest
> This is actually what RHEL does. Can anyone confirm what other
> distros are doing?
Gentoo, at least, puts all the section n pages in section n.
Danek
