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From: "Ismail Dönmez" <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] Change default man page path to /usr/share/man
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 18:23:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705081823.37602.ismail@pardus.org.tr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070508150220.GA18860@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

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Hi,
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 18:02:20 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> > According to FHS standard default man page path is $prefix/share/man [0]
> > , attached patch fixes this for GIT.
>
> According to some GNU standard it's $prefix/man.
>
> E.g. autoconf managed projects use $prefix/man if you don't give
> --mandir=... to configure.

Just noticed one can do make mandir=/usr/share/man

> Personally I prefer FHS, so I have
>
> 	mandir=$(prefix)/share/man
>
> in my config.mak.

Same here, IMHO FHS makes more sense and AFAIK most distros 
uses /usr/share/man.

Regards,
ismail

-- 
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-08 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-08 10:49 [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] Change default man page path to /usr/share/man Ismail Dönmez
2007-05-08 15:02 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-05-08 15:23   ` Ismail Dönmez [this message]
2007-05-08 17:44   ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-05-11 17:25 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-05-11 17:42   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-11 19:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 19:42     ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-05-11 19:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-11 19:50         ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-06-20 19:42         ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-06-20 20:20           ` Junio C Hamano

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