Re: [MiNT] Sparemint and FHS

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Guido Flohr wrote:
> Finally, I must admit that I don't consider it a good idea to put manpages
> into /usr/share because they are not sharable (at least not across
> platforms).  

Actually, they _are_, as any other other text-based file is.  The
only thing that is not sharable accross the board are cat-formatted
versions (which is not a problem, since the FHS philosophy is that
man pages should always be formatted on the fly and stored in
/var/share/man during their use.

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