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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: question on manpages/hier(7)
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In the last episode (May 09), Paul Beard said:
> Where should site-specific, ie local, man pages live?
> 
> For instance, I have: 
> 
> /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz
> /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3597 May  6 00:38 /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3383 Dec 20 19:54 /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz
> 
> My understanding is that the older one is in the right place. The newer
> one is registered as belonging to php5.4-14 while the old one is orphaned.

I don't have a /usr/local/share/man/ directory at all, and have 7300 files in
/usr/local/man/man?/ , so I'd say /usr/local/man/ is the correct location :)
 

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