On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:49:40 -0400 (EDT), Jaromir Capik wrote: > > Secondly, I am really not sure in which category the man pages belong. > > "System Administration" seems wrong to me, as the most common use case > > for these tools is to flash an EEPROM temporarily connected to the > > system (typically over the parallel bus or USB) for it to then be used > > on a different system. It's somewhat similar to a cross-compiler, so > > it's more about development than system administration. Sure, these > > tools can only be used by root, but it is really only because handling > > permissions on /dev/i2c* nodes is not so easy. > > > > As a consequence, I don't know if these tools should go to /usr/sbin > > (because in practice only root can use them) or in /usr/bin (because > > they are not system administration tools proper.) Likewise, I don't > > know if they should go to man page section 1 (General commands), or 8 > > (System administration commands.) Opinion anyone? > > Life's difficult :] > I believe users do not care about this stuff as long as there's only > one manpage per tool. The same applies to the binary location. > As long as it is reachable via the PATH variable, there's no need for > worries about the location. Short of a better idea, I left the category name and number as they were in the patch you provided. Which I just applied with minor edits BTW: http://www.lm-sensors.org/changeset/6204 Thanks for your contribution! -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
