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Re: [MiNT] Sparemint and FHS



Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 08:28:33AM +0000, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> Take your manpage example: If you want to put manpages into
> /usr/share/man and not /usr/man, you also have to take care
> that all manual readers actually search that directory for
> manual pages.  Assuring this would mean that we would have
> to modify a lot of other packages, too, like startup scripts,
> user home directory skeletons, shell init files ...
> Most of these packages have not even been built.

Is there more than one manpage reader for mint? What do startup scripts,
home directory skeletons or shell init files have to do with 'man'?

Modifying man to use both /usr/man and /usr/share/man is rather simple,
and as there aren't any other manpage readers, it's not a lot of work.