* Vincent Lefevre writes: > There are systems with multiple binaries. * Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-02 17:17]: > It's up to the sysadmin to keep the man pages in the > same directory prefix as the binaries. /usr/foo/man/man1 > should correspond to /usr/foo/bin, et c.
*sigh* Chris - don't be daft. we're not talking about systems of people with only one user and one binary. we are talking about real live systems with thousands of users which have dozens of power-users who all keep their own binary or even several binaries. here - take a look: current executables starting with "mutt" on our system here: $ mutt<tab><tab> mutt mutt-1.4 mutt-1.0-ncurses mutt-1.4p mutt-1.2 mutt-ncurses mutt-1.2.5 mutt-ncurses-no-gnu_regex mutt-1.3.23-ncurses mutt-slang mutt-1.3.23-slang mutt-try mutt-1.3.25i mutt-wegmit mutt-1.3.28 mutt.old3 mutt-1.3.28-ncurses muttbug mutt-1.3.28-slang muttem mutt-1.3.99 as you can see there's more to mutt than just one thing. and I also keep some old binaries around - just in case: guckes@ritz:~/bin/OLD>ll mut* -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 190354 Nov 5 1999 mutt-1.1.00.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 203175 Nov 12 1999 mutt-1.1.01.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 233530 Apr 10 2000 mutt-1.1.11.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 194287 Jan 28 2000 mutt-1.1.2i.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 196184 May 9 2000 mutt-1.2.00.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 201842 Jul 5 2000 mutt-1.2.02.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 192970 Jul 7 2000 mutt-1.2.4.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 221627 Feb 2 2001 mutt-1.2.5.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 244117 Nov 1 2001 mutt-1.3.23.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 247202 Dec 11 2001 mutt-1.3.24-noNLS.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 259638 Dec 17 2001 mutt-1.3.24.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 260072 Jan 7 2002 mutt-1.3.25.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 254636 Jan 18 2002 mutt-1.3.26.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 254635 Jan 23 2002 mutt-1.3.27.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 guckes emailer 209590 Oct 4 2000 mutt-1.3.9.gz now - can you install *the* manual which fits all binaries? thought so. so can we *please* drop the idea that there the manual has to be compliant with "the" binary? (and please don't start a discussion about adding different MANPATHs for every binary..) Sven
