From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 18 17: 8:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD56D14C24; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:08:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA87646; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:21:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:21:12 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default FDP docs installation directory? Message-ID: <19990819002112.B83680@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990818121931.A4266@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990818151819.C2750@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990818151819.C2750@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 03:18:19PM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 03:18:19PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:19:31PM +0100, a little birdie told me > that Nik Clayton remarked > > > > Does anyone have any objections to /usr/local/share/doc/fdp/ as the root > > path for the documentation? 'fdp' is a little bit cryptic, but I like > > TLAs, and the only other alternative I could think of ('docproj', or > > 'doc-proj') is quite ugly. > > Why /usr/local/share instead of /usr/share? Because it's not part of the base system (i.e., under the src/ tree in the repository). I was under the impression that this is a reasonably formal rule (i.e., anything that's not in src/ gets installed under /usr/local/ (or wherever the appropriate Makefile variable is set to)) but that some things ignore it. For example, the Japanese manual pages install under /usr/share/man/ja, not /usr/local/share/man/ja. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message