Junio C Hamano wrote: > For example, on my primary development box, I do not have any git > installed from distribution, but I do have git on my $PATH. For such > users, "make install" should be able to find out that the right place to > install git-work.1 is in $HOME/some/where/man/man1 directory. Sorry to be dense, but: isn't the right place to install git-work.1 one of /usr/local/share/man /usr/share/man /opt/man $HOME/man $prefix/man depending on where the git-work binary was installed? In the $prefix case, the same snippet in .profile that adds $prefix/bin to the $PATH would also say MANPATH=$prefix/man:$(manpath) Or is the idea to blindly install (a symlink to) git-work to $(git --exec-path)/ rather than a place on the $PATH? In this case, I would be a little worried. How will the helper deal with uninstallation and with namespace conflicts? (On the $PATH, these are expected problems and I'd expect each user has some way of dealing with them already.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html