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Re: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 04:02:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:38:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>
>>
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be
>>>>>duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and
>>>>>/usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming.
>>>>>
>>>>Or have a ghostscript-docs-x.y.z which just contains documents...
>>>>
>>>
>>>That won't be too convenient for people who want to read man pages.
>>>
>>>I'd suggest just using symbolic links in the /usr/X11R6/... directories
>>>to the /usr/... directories.
>>
>>
>>But everybody is assuming that everything under /usr/X11R6/ (with the
>>exception of gs.exe) will be identical to the stuff under /usr.
>>
>>This *may* be true, NOW. But it ain't necessarily so -- and even if it
>>is, it ain't guaranteed to remain that way.
>
>I'm only suggesting symbolic links for identical information like man
>pages.
I'm perfectly fine with just putting shared info in one location, however
I should point out that cygwin doesn't put man pages in /usr/share/man
currently. I wish we'd done it that way to begin with, but...
cgf