[arch-general] X11 man pages

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 18:13:18 EST 2008


On Feb 8, 2008 5:06 PM, marc[î1] <marci1 at archlinux.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Arch devs put man pages in /usr/share/man like FHS want, ok.
>
> But FHS says :
> « Manual pages for X11R6 are stored in /usr/X11R6/man. It follows that all
> manual page hierarchies in the system must have the same structure
> as /usr/share/man. »
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES
>
> I don't understand FHS or ArchLinux should put X11 man page
> in /usr/X11R6/man ?

Hmmm, I actually think you might be right here. It seems weird, but
the FHS is fairly explicit on it. I'd suggest you file a bug report
about this.

As for Travis' comment, xorg 7 is an implementation of X11R6.


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