[tools-discuss] Re: [companion-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu

[Alan Coopersmith]

Rainer Orth wrote:
>> 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.

The desktop login programs have traditionally set MANPATH in desktop sessions
to include /usr/openwin & /usr/dt - which isn't the right solution (a default
man path configured in a system wide file like the BSD's would be better), but
is the way these were handled in the past.

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