-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Pechtchanski on 9/8/2005 8:50 AM: > Ugh. Couldn't this be installed into /usr/share/neon-*/man, and handled > by judicious manipulation of the MANPATH?
This sounds good to me - judicious use of the alternatives system to select which script in /etc/profile.d/ alters your MANPATH, then install the versioned man pages into two distinct directories. You will then see the set of man pages corresponding to the directory added to MANPATH by the alternatives-based profile script. > > It might be a bit more intuitive to use ne_malloc-0.24 and ne_malloc-0.25. > Alternatively, you could stick the version into the section number (i.e., > ne_malloc from section 3-0.24 or 3-0.25). That way, users can select the > right manpages by using the -S flag. I don't think adding new sections is the best idea. For the most part, libraries with incompatible versions and incompatible man pages tend to install only the most recent man pages - yes, this means that compiling against an older version of the library means you don't have accurate documentation, but why are you actively developing against the older library version to need the older documentation? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDIXwZ84KuGfSFAYARAj39AJ4zq/cuIEHax6Ubu6tacauoswKiIwCfcj87 sLZstG4w/I54/Z8cVU8y//w= =90p4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
