Hi,
A question:
Are packages legitimated to install man pages into arbitrary /usr/share/man/man* directories outside those provided by the "filesystem" package?
Background:
- the man-pages rpm installs its man-pages into /usr/share/man/man0p /usr/share/man/man1p /usr/share/man/man3p
- the blas and lapack rpms install into /usr/share/man/manl
Additionally, all these packages leave their man page installation directories unowned: # rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man?p /usr/share/man/manl file /usr/share/man/man0p is not owned by any package file /usr/share/man/man1p is not owned by any package file /usr/share/man/man3p is not owned by any package file /usr/share/man/manl is not owned by any package
I checked the FHS, but it once again seems intentionally vague to me wrt. this topic, so I think we need a convention, here.
Ralf
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