From: Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 15:23:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] Change default man page path to /usr/share/man
Message-ID: <200705081823.37602.ismail@pardus.org.tr>
In-Reply-To: <20070508150220.GA18860@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Hi,
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 18:02:20 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> > According to FHS standard default man page path is $prefix/share/man [0]
> > , attached patch fixes this for GIT.
>
> According to some GNU standard it's $prefix/man.
>
> E.g. autoconf managed projects use $prefix/man if you don't give
> --mandir=... to configure.

Just noticed one can do make mandir=/usr/share/man

> Personally I prefer FHS, so I have
>
> 	mandir=$(prefix)/share/man
>
> in my config.mak.

Same here, IMHO FHS makes more sense and AFAIK most distros 
uses /usr/share/man.

Regards,
ismail

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