From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc/man vs etc Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:42:13 +0200 Message-ID: <18156.13717.143343.139966@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <1dk5qrkaih.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189885385 7187 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2007 19:43:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 21:43:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IWdXg-0002KA-KT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:43:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWdXf-0005Uk-P1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:42:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWdXH-0005JM-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWdXF-0005If-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWdXF-0005IL-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.132.3]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWdX5-0006nf-7L; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.75]) by mail.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l8FJgD0E099339; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:42:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de) Original-Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l8FJgDnJ003545; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:42:13 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8FJgDjp003539; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:42:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1dk5qrkaih.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.1-465 under Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78987 Archived-At: >>>>> 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