Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Except that datadir is for read-only architecture-independent data, and man > pages are not architecture-independent. Granted, it is possible to > reorganize the subdirs into arch-specific subdirs, but that is not presently > the case. Also, different machines may have different versions of software > that requires different versions of man pages.
All GNU man pages are supposed to be architecture independent, at least. Or that's how I think it should be. Of course, man pages proper aren't really part of GNU...