On 17 Jul 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > * We should not break backwards compatibility during the transition > period. This is a quality of implementation issue > > During the transition, we need to provide backwards > compatibility, firstly for programs ike `dwww', and `dhelp', and > also for our users who have gotten used to looking under a single > dir (`/usr/doc/') for docs (`/usr/doc/`package''). During the > transition, the documentation could be in in two places, and that > is not good
Please note that when we switched from /usr/doc/copyright/package to /usr/doc/package/copyright we didn't create any smylinks "for backwards compatibility". I understand that programs like dwww or dhelp will have to look in both directories, but this may be done without the symlinks. So, the *only* remaining reason for the symlinks is the users who have gotten used to look under /usr/doc. Well, they will have to get used to look under /usr/share/doc sooner or later, so this will not help very much. This proposal would just postpone the time when people will have to look at /usr/share/doc. By comparison, it is not so much inconvenience to look at /usr/share/doc and /usr/doc when manually looking for documentation, because when a user finds what he/she is looking for, ordinarily he/she concentrates on actually *reading* the docs, so the actual place where to find the docs is not so much important as long as the docs are there. Thanks. -- "131411fd05cc5ce33188a44fb66432bd" (a truly random sig)
