From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 18 17:25: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca44-42.ix.netcom.com [209.111.212.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4798914C24; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@stampede.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id RAA60753; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:25:03 -0700 (PDT) To: Nik Clayton Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Nik Clayton , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default FDP docs installation directory? References: <19990818121931.A4266@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990818151819.C2750@futuresouth.com> <19990819002112.B83680@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 18 Aug 1999 17:25:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:21:12 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Nik Clayton * 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. The rule is reasonably blurred, since doc falls somewhere between src and ports. However, [Free]BSD docs have been installed under /usr/share/doc for a long time, and I don't see why this should be changed now even if the sources have moved slightly. * For example, the Japanese manual pages * install under /usr/share/man/ja, not /usr/local/share/man/ja. That is because they match stuff in /usr, not /usr/local. I think it's better to keep manuals and the programs they refer to close to each other in the hierarchy. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message