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Re: [ITP] wtf
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:58:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [ITP] wtf
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Great. Is the packaging structure ok? Should I move the manpages to
> > /usr/share/man while I'm at it?
>
> I think so. While recompiling all of my packages (again) for 1.5.1, I
> moved all documentation into /usr/share/* since that seemed to (a) make
> sense, (b) have some support on the list, and (c) NOT have any strident
> opposition.
>
> There may be some short-term issues with
> _update-info-dir/INFOPATH/MANPATH, but those can be fixed
> asynchronously, and do not appear to be truly problematic or otherwise
> unsolvable.
>
> Chuck
Ah, I thought so. Ok, then, how about I leave them in /usr/man for now,
and move them to /usr/share/man when I recompile the package against
1.5.*?
Igor
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