Danek Duvall wrote On 05/14/07 10:26,:
>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. > > Close to what I would like to see. By our conventions, even the existing section 3 pages go into a new subsection, not just man3. All that is in man3 these days are intros and pages that describe entire libraries. - jek3
