<SNIP> > > > is invoked from /opt/bin which then sets the environment > > > before launching the application from /opt/application/bin. > > > > > So add a man link farm as /opt/man to match those in > > /opt/bin > > > It does work, though migh not be pretty if you have > many man pages. > Also, I imagine that name space issues would occur quickly (i.e. man pages with the same name), which is one of the reason's one might decide to install their software in a different base directory. > I said it would be nice feature and wrote set of patches > to implement both features. It's no sour grapes from me > if it does not go mainstream, it was just proposal with > some code thought with no obligations. This happens a lot > in Linux community, code is written to show functionality, > some is used some isn't and I've become familiar with that > along years. > But just as a vote of confidence, this feature does exactly what I was looking for. It provides a fairly clean way to handle adding to the man search path in an additive way which is what most packages would want to do. Also, I have not checked it out yet, but I bet your change will allow any man.config directives in the man.config.d directory, which gives you some other flexebility. <SNIP> > But, that's ofcourse just my opinion and as if man is considered > perfect already there isn't much need to touch it further. > I am laughing! Its the best documentation system in the known universe; why its the flower of intelectual efforts (-; Cheers...james _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
