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

[Bart Smaalders]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.
> 

What I'd like to do is have the man command read all the places
man pages are likely to be installed from a file; this would be
postpended to any manpath set by the user.

- Bart


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