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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:13:36 +0200
From:      Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple (same) sets of man pages
Message-ID:  <20030422221336.GH17943@unixpages.org>
In-Reply-To: <3EA5AC88.83535AE6@freebsd.org>
References:  <3EA5AC88.83535AE6@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 04:56:40PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> [ doc@ bcc:'d ]
>=20
> With 3 threading libraries, each with a set of the same man pages,
> how should this be handled?  It doesn't make any sense to have
> all of them installed and yet it should still be possible to
> install all 3 thread libraries.
>=20
> Do we need a different heirarchy for threads?
>=20
>   src/lib/threads/
>       -> man            # common man pages
>       -> libc_r
>            -> man       # libc_r specific man pages (if any)
>            -> thread
>            ...
>       -> libthr
>            -> man       # libthr specific man pages (if any)
>            -> thread
>            ...
>       -> libpthread
>            -> man       # libpthread specific man pages (if any)
>            -> thread
>            ...
>=20

If they are really the same, we could just add MLINKs for two of them.

- Christian

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