Re: man -M tcl (was: All caps .TH page title)

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 7/29/22 15:22, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > What are your thoughts?
>
> Yes, even though /usr/local/share/doc/pkgname/man/man* is a bit long,
> it makes more sense than paths like
>
>    /usr/local/cyrus/man/
>    /usr/local/heirloom-doctools/man/
>    /usr/local/lib/erlang21/man/
>    /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/man/
>    /usr/local/lib/stk/4.0.1/man/
>    /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.6/man/
>    /usr/local/plan9/man/
>    /usr/local/share/fish/man/
>
> Then again, *if* we go the -M alias way, these paths are only
> ever used in the man.conf(5) file.  So where exactly they are
> has no major impact on the user and is more a matter of system
> cleanliness.

Yeah, I do want to have system cleanliness, especially to help 
programmers organizing their file hierarchy know where they should put 
things.

So, let it be </usr/local/share/doc/pkgname/man/man*>.

I'll have a look at the POSIX man pages and see if there's something I 
can do there.

Thanks,

Alex

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