Re: [TCLUG:15481] Faeriedist

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:
> 
> >From what I understand, /usr/share (and /usr/local/share, /opt/share,
> >etc) is supposed to hold platform-independent data.  I think it would be
> >reasonable for a distribution to decide to put it's documentation in
> >/usr/share/doc, but it has to be consistent (in that case, it would
> >make  sense to make /usr/doc a symlink to /usr/share/doc)
> 
> I think this is another bad idea.  After all, who decides which data is
> platform-independant?
> Like, say I'm looking at some kind of application (like watch, or strace) that
> is usable
> on Linux... should it go in /usr/share/doc because, after all, the
> documentation is
> platform independant?  Or perhaps it should go in /usr/doc, since the commands
> are platform dependant?  Who knows?  Let's just confuse folks more, yay!

*whap*

Okay, I'm dumb..  I was confusing `platform-independent' with
`architecture-independent'...  It would probably less of a problem to
share documentation that way if you're just running Linux on various
architectures.  But things get nasty when you overwrite GNU ls's man
page with Solaris's ls man page..

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