Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: use man viewer path from "man.<tool>.path" config var

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 25, 2008, 06:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzlsnpaj3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803250719.02044.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:

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> Le vendredi 21 mars 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> ...
>> For example, if a distro offers two versions of konq to co-exist on the
>> same system as konqueror-3 and konqueror-4 (with the usual symlink tricks
>> /etc/alternatives/konqueror -> konqueror-3 and /usr/bin/konqueror ->
>> /etc/alternatives/konqueror to make one version the systemwide default),
>> people who want a particular version may say /usr/bin/konqueror-4 and
>> would get frustrated to see kfmclient magic would not kick in.  By taking
>> honest route without magic, you would not have to worry about such
>> potential confusion.
>
> In my experience KDE people have never changed the binary names like that. 
> They just use (or advice users to use) different directory names and change 
> environment variables (QTDIR, KDEDIR and maybe others) to point to the new 
> dirs.

I was more worried about what distro people do, not "KDE people". For example, Contents-i386.gz file from an unnamed distribution lists a handful /usr/bin/k*[0-9] files with their counterparts without the trailing digit.