Hi Colin, > Really, the weird thing is not so much the existence of the current > symlink, as the fact that the directories under $(dataprogramdir) are > versioned.
True. > but it's quite possible that it would have been better to abolish the > versioned directories. And not too late? > Anyway, groff's build system was more or less completely rewritten > between 1.22.3 and 1.22.4 (Bertrand's automake conversion), so that > will certainly confound any attempts to compare different > distributions if you aren't comparing like version for like. I'm 1.22.4 on an out-of-date Arch Linux. groff(1) here refers to an non-existant, and odd sounding, directory. $ man groff | grep site-tmac | xargs ls -d ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/groff/site-tmac': No such file or directory /usr/share/groff/site-tmac $ The existence of site-tmac as a sibling of 1.22.4 adds pressure for the latter to remain, otherwise 1.22.4's content could all move up a level. -- Cheers, Ralph.