Hi Bernd, Bernd Warken wrote on Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 04:04:47PM +0200:
> The normal installation from git produces the directory > /usr/local/share/doc/groff-1.22.2 > > That is not optimal, without the version seems to be much > better. The idea probably is to allow sharing of /usr/local/share/ across multiple machines, even if these machines run different operating systems and different versions of groff. In the old days, when 4.6 MB (the current size of /usr/local/share/groff/1.22.2/ on my notebook, just as an example) was an awful lot of space and buying so much disk space cost real money, that was quite important. Today, sharing /usr/local/share/ across machines is usually not a good idea because the additional administration overhead is rarely worth the economy in disk space. Whether that is a sufficient reason to drop version numbers from directory names below /share/ is a matter of taste: There may still be a few scattered people sharing /share/ in some highly unusual situations. I would tend to zap the version numbers nowadays. It makes things easier for at least 99.9% of all users and the tiny fraction still doing such stunts have considerable administration overhead anyway and certainly the required administative skills to define the proper DIR variables needed in their custom installations, or they would long have died from a thousand small cuts... Yours, Ingo
