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

[Mike Gerdts]

On Dec 13, 2007 2:46 PM, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:16:28PM -0600, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> > However, I am not convinced that it is needed or worth the effort.
>
> I say we leave that for another day, if we ever do need it.
>
> In the meantime packagers not used to having $BASEDIR/bin/../man can get
> by with symlinks.
>

Nit, but potentially important to some.

The exact directory is not $BASEDIR/bin/../man.  It is $BASEDIR/man.
This is an important distinction for potentially broken directory
hierarchies:

/opt/foo/bin -> sparcv9/bin
/opt/foo/sparcv9/bin/foo
/opt/foo/man
/opt/foo/man/man1/foo.1

If PATH had /opt/foo/bin, then /opt/foo/bin/../man would really be
/opt/foo/sparcv9/man, which doesn't exist.

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/