On Dec 21, 2007 1:44 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
You still haven't looked at the issue with /usr/man/man* getting replaced by a symlink, which is not possible on a system where manpages are already installed.
But that can be covered at a later date. The actual "support" for this is simply unsetting MANPATH. If a package installs man pages to /usr/man/man1 it will still be looked up just fine. The makepkg 3.1 will no longer move man pages to /usr/man, so I don't think we should do any moving until that is out the door. Could you explain to me how the symlink will help? It seems like, to me, we're just going to confuse the crap out of pacman when it tries to install/upgrade. With the current implementation, man pages will work regardless of where they are.