From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc/man vs etc
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:55:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4wj386t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1dk5qrkaih.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:10 -0400)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:10 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Some of the man pages are still in etc/, AFAICS. Why weren't they
> > moved to doc/man, together with those which were moved?
>
> Because they don't get installed, except as part of the etc/
> directory. If they were moved to doc/man, they would no longer be part
> of an installed Emacs. IMO, none of them are worth installing in the
> actual MANPATH (or if they are, it's not the job of Emacs to provide
> `man sex' hilarity).
Funny you'd think my concerns were about sex.6.
Actually, I was thinking more about gfdl.1: some files in etc/ and
elsewhere used to refer to it (that's why it was introduced in the
first place, IIRC). If no file refers to it nowadays, maybe we should
just delete it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-15 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-15 10:16 doc/man vs etc Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-15 10:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-09-15 13:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-16 5:33 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-15 19:13 ` Glenn Morris
2007-09-15 19:24 ` Jay Belanger
2007-09-15 19:42 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-09-15 21:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-09-15 22:31 ` Glenn Morris
2007-09-15 23:22 ` Romain Francoise
2007-09-16 2:08 ` Glenn Morris
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