| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages |
| Date: | 1999-08-16 03:00:49 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.10.9908152359310.401-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> > manage to have the same man page name as some other existing page.
> > *That* would be a bad thing. And in general adding ~75 man pages to
> > existing sections is a pretty big load...
>
> As long as we install into /usr/local/pgsql/man/man*, naming conflicts
> with other packages aren't too big a deal --- there's no physical file
> conflict, and people can just add or remove /usr/local/pgsql/man/ in
> their MANPATH settings to see or not see Postgres manpages.
Jumping in mid-stream and a week late (love holidays, eh? *grin*) ... My
opinion is to make the default ${PREFIX}/man and have a --manpath=
variable set to configure to move it to a different place...
I *believe* that Oracle installs its man pages under its install
directory, but can't confirm right now...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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