On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > 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.)
Rare or not, /usr/share is a place for architecture independant data that may be shared between hosts of different architectures and the example shows that it is quite useful to have a place for architecture specific architecture independant data in there. And you _can_ read an i386 manpage on an Alpha, so it's not architecture dependant. Nobody forces you to put something into /usr/share/man/<arch> but I think it is very reasonable to have it defined when someone needs it. -- Manfred Wassmann PGP and GnuPG public keys available at http://germany.keyserver.net PGP: 24B81049 Fingerprint: D7 10 EE 2B 74 16 C0 64 B4 5F BA B2 90 29 3D AF GPG: 6B299971 Fingerprint: A598 A41F 57A3 5D69 83D2 8027 1274 F8CD 6B29 9971 +++ I18N ? For international language set LANG=POSIX +++
