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Re: Neon packaging of multiple versions


Eric Blake wrote:
According to Igor Pechtchanski on 9/8/2005 8:50 AM:
Ugh.  Couldn't this be installed into /usr/share/neon-*/man, and handled
by judicious manipulation of the MANPATH?

This sounds good to me - judicious use of the alternatives system to select which script in /etc/profile.d/ alters your MANPATH, then install the versioned man pages into two distinct directories. You will then see the set of man pages corresponding to the directory added to MANPATH by the alternatives-based profile script.

That could certainly work. It's a lot of complication just for manpages, though.


For the most part,
libraries with incompatible versions and incompatible man pages tend to
install only the most recent man pages - yes, this means that compiling
against an older version of the library means you don't have accurate
documentation, but why are you actively developing against the older
library version to need the older documentation?

Debian simply doesn't install any manpages for neon, as all the information is duplicated in html form in /usr/share/doc, anyway.


Max.


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