[ On , August 24, 2000 at 16:11:34 (-0400), Paul D. Smith wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> There's 20+ years of history behind ${prefix}/man and there's, oh, say,
> 13+ years of history behind ${prefix}/info.
Hmmm....
> Moving man to .../share
> (${datadir}) on some systems was painful enough, and there was a very
> solid technical reason to do that.
It was painful only because too many people made too many assumptions! ;-)
> And they all still provide symlinks
> from /usr/man.
Not ever by default on NetBSD or FreeBSD.....
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