On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 06:39 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Orion Poplawski wrote: > > Many packages provide man3 (and other) man pages with generic names. The > > case in question in ncarg-devel and allegro-devel which both provide > > man3/line.3.gz. So, what do we do? > > - rename to something like <package>_<manpage>? > > +1 Works for section 3 but not for section 1 (application man packages). There, each man page should match the name of the tool it is trying to describe. But, if section 1 man pages clash, the apps probably also do. > >Is there an easy way to find conflicts before > > packaging? > > Not that I'm aware. It's close to impossible, because man page conflicts normally occur at installation time, due to parallel installations of alternative implementations (or badly designed packages). > > - suffixes <manpage>.3<suffix> ? Can man handle this? > > Another possibility, but I'm unfamiliar with that convention. It's the traditional standard on many non-Linux *nixes. Unfortunately Linux' "man" doesn't handle these sufficiently well. [Install Inventor-devel and Coin2-devel from FE, if you'd like to experiment with this convention. .3iv vs. .3] Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
