On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 at 05:15:53 +0200, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > Note that we don't have architecture-specific man page hierarchies as > > mentioned in that section of the FHS. Incidentally, I think putting > > those in /usr/share/man/i386 etc. is a misfeature - why not use > > /usr/lib/man for programs only available on the current architecture, > > like everything else architecture-specific? Or is the intention that you > > can install man pages for i386-only programs on an Alpha? > > What if that Alpha is a fileserver exporting /usr/share(/man) to a PC? > If you have a program with different manpages for both architectures you > would certainly want them both in /usr/share/man, wouldn't you?
Would I? I'd have thought I'd only want the one for the architecture I was actually using in that case, and have it installed locally. (Such man pages should be rather rare, of course.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
