[Moved to cygwin-apps per Igor's suggestion] On Apr 4 10:34, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > Sorry, I must have come to the wrong conclusion. I had thought that > > since Cygwin by default installs man pages to /usr/share/man > > installing the MinGW specific man pages in /usr/man as long as they > > were prefixed with 'mingw-' was OK. This allows users to do a 'man > > mingw-dirname' without having to modify their MANPATH.
The FHS defines /usr/share/man as the path for man pages. Thus we want to get rid of /usr/man. > > If it's desired that they not be included, I'll produce an updated > > release with them removed. > > IMO, if they are already prefixed by "mingw-", they can go into > /usr/share/man -- there's no chance they'll be confused with Cygwin's > manpages. But perhaps we should move this discussion to -apps, and inform > this list of the final decision. I'm somewhat unhappy with the idea to include MingW man pages in a Cygwin installation. Cygwin and MingW are just two different beasts, no matter that they run on the same base OS. I would prefer either not to install MingW man pages at all in Cygwin, or to create a specific mingw-manpages package which installs the man pages in a MingW specific folder like, say, /usr/share/doc/mingw/man. This package should only be installed on explicit request by the user. It could come with .sh and a .csh shell script in /etc/profile.d which sets MANPATH as /etc/profile.d/openssl.*sh does. OTOH, the requirement to prefix the man pages with "mingw-" would still exist so that no user confuses MingW and Cygwin man pages. Am I overcomplicating things? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
