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Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 03:26:16 -0700 (PDT)
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[CC: wacked with an axe]

> >I am going to agree with Phk on this one, with the following basis:
> 
> >a) man 7 hier:
> >	usr/
> >		share/	architecture-independent ascii text files
>                                                        ^^^^
> 
> This is too out of date to be authoritative:

Or has been ignored over time as beeing the authoritative specification
of the file system hierarchy :-(.

> 
> >   Thus no architecture dependend directories or files should be stored
> >   under usr/share, even in directories like /usr/share/etc/etc.i386.
> 
> 	$ find /usr/share/man/man*/i386 -type f | wc -c
> 	47

And, IMHO, these should not be there per the specification, or in other
words the specifcation has short commings and some work needs to be done
to fill in the missing pieces.

> >c) The proposal of /usr/arch is, IMHO, a Good Idea, we need some place like
> >   this to hold architecture depend files (we don't really have a place at
> >   all for this now, or stuff that could go here has been pack ratted in
> >   under current places (probably a bad practice).
> 
> It would make things a bit harder to find.  E.g., the i386 man pages are
> currently linked to /usr/share/man/man* since man(1) is too stupid to find
> them in machine-dependent places.

This was broken the day we moved from the true BSD man(1) to the gnu version,
something we should look at reversing if we can find a suck^H^H^H^Hvolunteer
to add manual page compression to the CSRG version of man(1).

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