[illumos-Advocates] [RTI] 243 system manual pages should live with the software

Albert Lee trisk at opensolaris.org
Sun Mar 13 09:53:47 PDT 2011


On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:
> Yes, /usr/ucb uses section 1B, though the files are in /usr/share/man.
>  I decided to keep the files in /usr/has/man because that's where they
> were as section 1 pages, and because I think the magic behind 'man
> /usr/has/bin/foo' and the-$PATH-based munging relies upon it.
>

Seems more logical to me to have 1has in /usr/share/man with symlinks
in /usr/has/man (with the original section names, even, as the typical
PATH and/or MANPATH will make /usr/share/man win here), but not a big
deal.

-Albert



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