Hi, Aaron Bieber wrote on Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:01:38AM -0700: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:54:12PM +0100, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:00:26AM -0700, Aaron wrote:
>>> This patch updates nodejs from 0.6.3 to 0.6.5. Tested on i386/amd64 >> Shouldn't the manpages be installed to a more generic path? > I assume you are talking about the pages in > /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/man/man3/ . > > They are specific to npm, which was just recently added to node, and > are generally accessed from the npm command ( "npm help json" for > example ). > > Moving them will likely cause problems as npm expects them to be in its > "node_module" directory. Well, that could probably be fixed, no? But the names of these pages are too generic. So they either have to stay well well out of the way, in some non-generic path, as you proposed. Of course, then they are of rather limited usefulness, because man(1) and apropos(1) will not find them. Given the bad naming scheme, telling people to add that path to man.conf(5) would be a bad idea. Or alternatively, to make it possible to put them into /usr/local/man/, they have to be renamed to something sensible, like npm-init(1), npm-link(1), and so on, and npm has to be changed to cope. But probably that's beyond the scope of a port and should be fixed upstream instead. Yours, Ingo
