Installing the manpages to /usr may not be the preferred option when working on a system with a packaging system like apt or yum, where /usr is reserved for packages and /usr/local or /opt is used for user addons. README should explain how to install to a path different to /usr. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> --- README | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 447a925..0ec038f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ This package contains Linux man pages for sections Install by copying to your favourite location. "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. +To install to a path different from /usr use +"make install prefix=/install/path". "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed', then remove old versions (compressed or not), -- 2.0.0.rc2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
