On 02/20/2012 01:30 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/20/2012 10:50 AM, Jason Helfman wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:35:43PM -0500, Cole Robinson thus spake: >>> On 02/15/2012 08:22 PM, Jason Helfman wrote: >>>> Here is a patch I have to move man installation away from share. Please >>>> consider. >>>> >>> >>> Hmm, at least fedora packages install man pages to /usr/share/man/ . >>> Debian >>> packages install virtinst man pages similarly at least. What host OS >>> are you >>> using? >>> >>> - Cole >>> >>> >> >> FreeBSD. Maybe it is different, but I thought that man pages should be >> installed to /usr/local for software. > > BSD probably does use a different default hierarchy than GNU/Linux (I > haven't actually checked). But this should be fine-tunable at > configuration time, using things like ./configure --mandir=... > That is, I think that configure should already just work for your > situation, if you are using the options correctly: rather than having to > patch upstream to be aware of every different distro's conventions, > upstream should just be flexible enough that every single distro can > customize things to match their own conventions during configure. > virtinst doesn't use configure though, we use python-setuptools. That said I'd take a patch to add a --mandir option, but the default should be maintained. - Cole
