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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:19, shivaken wrote:
> HI,
>
> There are two man directories on my smgl system
> /usr/man and /usr/share/man.
> Some spells uses "--mandir=/usr/share/man" and
> some uses "--mandir=/usr/man".
> I think using unified mandir is proper.
>
> And, most spells uses defalut sysconfdir.
> So, some uses /etc/$SPELL and some uses /etc.
> But at many case, /etc/$SPELL is good.
>
> Why don't you set these directory policy?

some packages don't honour --mandir so what we now do is make /usr/man a 
symlink to /usr/share/man which saves us having to manually hack configure or 
makefiles on a per spell basis. WE do the same for /usr/doc 
and /usr/share/doc also.

for sysconfdir, I have three suggestions.
a) file a bug and we can debate alternatives in the bugs comments
b) become a guru yourself and discuss this with the other gurus. Finding out 
what spells need doing and whether section gurus can integrate this change 
into regular maintenance of the spell.
c) become a guru yourself and make it your first task. Correct all the spells 
in devel that need correcting AND then test cast each one AND then check it 
works correctly without manual hacking of config files or even sources to use 
a non-standard location for the configs. 

The last suggestion is only an available as an option if majority of 
gurus/devels agree it should be done. 
Hamish
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