On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:20:56PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:28:30AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>>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? >> >>It seems that the general consensus is that the man pages should not >>be installed as part of the package. I don't know if there is much of >>a point installing them to a different location, since the MANPATH >>would need to manually be updated, or the user would need to execute a >>script to have the MANPATH updated 'automatically'. > >I think we have a minor disagreement here...
Or, maybe not, after reading Corinna's reply in the cygwin list... cgf
