From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc/man vs etc
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:42:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18156.13717.143343.139966@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1dk5qrkaih.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
>>>>> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Glenn Morris 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).
Please note that at least in Gentoo and Debian some of these man pages
are also provided by package "funny-manpages". So if Emacs would
install them in MANPATH there would be collisions. Please leave them
in etc/.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-15 19:42 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 [this message]
2007-09-15 21:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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