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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:19:55PM +0100, 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.

I agree with that, i'll take a look at the fhs which one should be used.

> And, most spells uses defalut sysconfdir.
> So, some uses /etc/$SPELL and some uses /etc.
> But at many case, /etc/$SPELL is good.

This should be decided on a case by case basis, most programs that need
more than a simple file use /etc/<appname> by default, but some don't.
E.g. mplayer used to have three config files with names that could clash
with other apps, so i decided to use /etc/mplayer for that.

> Why don't you set these directory policy?
> 
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