manwhich: Deriving MANPATH from PATH [PSARC/2007/688 FastTrack timeout 12/19/2007]

[Danek Duvall]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:01:47PM +0100, Bart Blanquart wrote:

> The option to make the transformations configurable could be useful  
> for other os.o distributions that have a different layout (changing a  
> configuration file is easier to maintain than changing something in  
> the source tree) and, come to think of it, might this not be useful  
> for anyone delivering executables and manpages?

If they wanted to put executables and manpages in willy-nilly places, sure.
But is there any real need to support that kind of installation?  How often
do you envision such a situation being required, rather than just being a
mistake in how a component is integrated?  Is ../man or ../share/man really
going to be an issue all that often, particularly if that directory could
be a symlink to the real one (as in Mike's /opt/VRTSvlic/bin /opt/VRTS/man
example)?

Rope is great and all, but there's no need to deliver it in pre-made
nooses.

Danek