Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:37:08 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=c3=ada?= <fernape@FreeBSD.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: git: 0a0f7486413c - main - man: Build manpages for all architectures Message-ID: <4a53cb13-1a9c-22c3-c3ee-27790927f4e3@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20211125143145.5jajvx52p5ma347c@aniel.nours.eu> References: <202106300806.15U86pGq037942@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20210706090311.aomxh4n45tkpktdc@aniel.nours.eu> <c272868f-8552-d914-9d63-32a4af8e51ce@FreeBSD.org> <20211125142339.zxkjpbohkxk4hete@aniel.nours.eu> <9226a616-d279-9702-f13f-cee7299afc7a@FreeBSD.org> <20211125143145.5jajvx52p5ma347c@aniel.nours.eu>
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On 25/11/2021 16:31, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> On 25/11/2021 16:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:57:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>> Looking at the output I got another thought: do we need architecture sub-dir >>>> links at all now that we install manpages to a main directory? >>>> Is there any benefit to having the same manpage in a directory (like man4) >>>> and its immediate subdirectory (like man4/arm) ? >>>> >>> Hardlink not in the same directory is imho a fragile setup anyway, what if a >>> user has different mount points here, the hardlink would be broken. while there >>> is little chances someone is doing that, history told me people are doing weird >>> things and if they haven't yet, they will soon. >>> >>> I continue to think this kind of links should be 1/ symlinks, 2/ relative >>> symlinks if they are in a situation which can become a cross device issue. >> >> Yeah... but are they needed at all? :-) >> >> I mean, whichever way we install manpages they are always installed into >> manX. I do not see a point / benefit of having another copy / link / >> whatever in manX/arch. >> >> P.S. >> Adding support for "MSYMLINKS" is not that hard. >> But I'd rather remove some stuff than add some new stuff. >> > > There I fully agree I don't see the point of the initial change in the first place :D Well, I do see the point of the change and I like it. But I don't understand why / how MANSUBDIR was / is useful. Perhaps people thought that hypothetically it would be a good idea if man foobar on amd64 and sparc64 had different content... But looks like it never happened and the idea (or strawman) is debatable too. -- Andriy Gapon
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