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

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:53 -0400, Albert Lee wrote:
> 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.

I can see arguments both ways.  I like /usr/has better for now, because
it keeps this stuff clearly isolated... and at some point I want to look
at removing some of this stuff.

	- Garrett

> 
> -Albert
> 
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