[companion-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu, 3

[Stephen Hahn]

* Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> [2006-05-04 14:29]:
> Stephen Hahn <sch at eng.sun.com> writes:
> The classic solution works cross-platform and is well understood by many
> users, the 1GNU etc. section proposal is requires Solaris-specific
> knowledge.  This might be acceptable, but becomes problematic if one takes
> into consideration that GNU software has not only section 1 manpages, but
> other sections as well.  If you want (or need) to handle preferences (or
> exclusion) for those with the ,<section> syntax as well, this quickly
> becomes unwieldly.
> 
> I understand that we need a way to set a system-wide default for MANPATH to
> handle this, but so do we for PATH as well.  If we can use /etc/profile
> etc. for this, I don't see why it would be necessary to use a MANPATH
> syntax differing from the common PATH one.

  I'm convinced (mostly by learning that the section ordering is
  specific to our man(1) implementation).  Will change.

  - Stephen

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