[illumos-Developer] [REVIEW] 243 system manual pages should live with the software

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 16:42 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> 
> > Casually screening, it looks reasonable, but I would like others to pay
> > special attention to the "facets".  Also I see that /usr/share/man has a
> > facet, and /usr/share/man/man2 has a different facet.  How does this
> > work?  Does the second facet override the first?
> 
> The word "facet" seems to be unrelated to the problem. Could you explain what 
> you are talking about?
> 
> Jörg
> 


Read the webrev.  "facets" are an IPS technology that allow packages to
be "customized" or "optimized" for a delivery platform.  (Put another
way, they are like "flavors" of a package, which in this case means
delivery either "with" man pages, or "without".)

	- Garrett