Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] Change default man page path to /usr/share/man

["Ismail Dönmez" <ismail@pardus.org.tr>]

On Friday 11 May 2007 22:27:35 you wrote:
> Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> writes:
> > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 13:49:31 you wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> According to FHS standard default man page path is $prefix/share/man [0]
> >> , attached patch fixes this for GIT.
> >>
> >> [0] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
> >
> > ACK? NAK? Do we care about this? :)
>
> I would not say the patch is wrong per-se, but:
>
>  - People who do not override prefix to install in $HOME would
>    suddenly get their mandir under $HOME/share/man; the fact
>    nobody complained so far suggests me that these people have
>    $MANPATH pointing at $HOME/man, which means your patch breaks
>    things for them, unless they have been overriding mandir in
>    which case your patch does not matter to them;

Or nobody is reading man pages? *g*

>  - Distros who package git and want to conform to FHS would have
>    been overriding not just prefix but mandir anyway, so your patch
>    is not an improvement to them;

True that.

>  - People who override prefix to install locally in /usr or
>    /usr/local does "make prefix=" thing anyway, and the fact
>    nobody complained so far suggests me that they have already
>    known they need to override mandir as well if they do not
>    like /usr/local/man, so your patch is not an improvement to
>    them.

Most(All?) distros /usr/share/man in MANPATH so I believe this patch shouldn't 
break anything but well you have the final say. I am ok with doing   
make mandir=/usr/share/man install-doc .

Regards,
ismail

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