From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:27:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] Change default man page path to /usr/share/man Message-ID: <7v646zb1p4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200705112025.58095.ismail@pardus.org.tr> Ismail Dönmez writes: > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 13:49:31 you wrote: >> Hi, >> >> According to FHS standard default man page path is $prefix/share/man [0] , >> attached patch fixes this for GIT. >> >> [0] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES >> >> Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez > > ACK? NAK? Do we care about this? :) I would not say the patch is wrong per-se, but: - People who do not override prefix to install in $HOME would suddenly get their mandir under $HOME/share/man; the fact nobody complained so far suggests me that these people have $MANPATH pointing at $HOME/man, which means your patch breaks things for them, unless they have been overriding mandir in which case your patch does not matter to them; - Distros who package git and want to conform to FHS would have been overriding not just prefix but mandir anyway, so your patch is not an improvement to them; - People who override prefix to install locally in /usr or /usr/local does "make prefix=" thing anyway, and the fact nobody complained so far suggests me that they have already known they need to override mandir as well if they do not like /usr/local/man, so your patch is not an improvement to them. That makes one half negative plus two and half neutral.