On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:20:17PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > Stefan Hagen wrote on Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 09:41:20AM +0200: > > > There's no good way to handle a conflict that's introduced with an > > update. So what we would do is to move the manpages into the install > > directory. (thanks to espie@ for the suggestion) > > Actually, i regard that as bad advice, espie@ shouldn't say such things.
I don't know. The ability of install versioned manpages for the same software doesn't seem to be a bad idea to me. And /etc/man.conf does feature new default paths, so why not ? If adding new directories isn't the right level, maybe new sections ? or explicit versionned stuff. Yeah, we've installed several versions of tcl for a long time. Oh, and man has a "-a" option to display ALL manual pages. We have currently ZERO mechanism to desambiguate anything outside of sections... if you say, man foo, it will give you the first foo, not even hinting there might be a second food behind it. Yeah, we can rename stuff so that man doesn't get confused, but why does man get confused in the first place ?
