On 25/11/2021 16:31, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
On 25/11/2021 16:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:57:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
Looking at the output I got another thought: do we need architecture sub-dir
links at all now that we install manpages to a main directory?
Is there any benefit to having the same manpage in a directory (like man4)
and its immediate subdirectory (like man4/arm) ?
Hardlink not in the same directory is imho a fragile setup anyway, what if a
user has different mount points here, the hardlink would be broken. while there
is little chances someone is doing that, history told me people are doing weird
things and if they haven't yet, they will soon.
I continue to think this kind of links should be 1/ symlinks, 2/ relative
symlinks if they are in a situation which can become a cross device issue.
Yeah... but are they needed at all? :-)
I mean, whichever way we install manpages they are always installed into
manX. I do not see a point / benefit of having another copy / link /
whatever in manX/arch.
P.S.
Adding support for "MSYMLINKS" is not that hard.
But I'd rather remove some stuff than add some new stuff.
There I fully agree I don't see the point of the initial change in the first
place :D
Well, I do see the point of the change and I like it.
But I don't understand why / how MANSUBDIR was / is useful.
Perhaps people thought that hypothetically it would be a good idea if man foobar
on amd64 and sparc64 had different content...
But looks like it never happened and the idea (or strawman) is debatable too.
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Andriy Gapon
