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

[Jonathan Adams]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:56:02AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:03:05PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
> 
> > Stephen Hahn <sch at eng.sun.com> writes:
> > 
> > > 2.4.  Manual pages
> > > 
> > >     In the interest of reducing manual page scavenger hunts, this
> > >     proposal recommends the introduction of a new manual page section,
> > >     1G, to cover the introduced utilities.  (Sections 1MG, 3LIBG, and so
> > >     forth can be added as necessary.)
> > > 
> > >     Management of the manual path then proceeds along similar lines as
> > >     the executable path in Section 2.1:
> > > 
> > >     MANPATH=/usr/man,1g,1
> > > 
> > >     to prefer the GNU project environment reference manual, and
> > > 
> > >     MANPATH=/usr/man,1,1g
> > > 
> > >     to use the GNU environment manual as a fallback.
> > 
> > I strongly object to this part: using $prefix/man together with $prefix/bin
> > etc. a well-established and understood practice which many users are
> > already familiar with.  Using this Solaris-specific way of dealing with the
> > issue will only introduce unnecessary confusion.
> 
> If we're to pack the man pages under /usr/gnu, then, I think it would be a
> requirement to augment the Solaris man utility to be configurable
> out-of-the-box to have multiple entries in MANPATH.  There's a bug open
> against this -- 1146762 -- and is probably oss-bitesize-able, though I
> think it would require an ARC case.

Couldn't we have both worlds?  The manpages under /usr/gnu/man/man1g,
and a symlink from /usr/share/man/man1g -> /usr/gnu/man/man1g?

Cheers,
- jonathan

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Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development