Re: git: 0a0f7486413c - main - man: Build manpages for all architectures

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 25/11/2021 16:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:57:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > > Looking at the output I got another thought: do we need architecture sub-dir
> > > links at all now that we install manpages to a main directory?
> > > Is there any benefit to having the same manpage in a directory (like man4)
> > > and its immediate subdirectory (like man4/arm) ?
> > > 
> > Hardlink not in the same directory is imho a fragile setup anyway, what if a
> > user has different mount points here, the hardlink would be broken. while there
> > is little chances someone is doing that, history told me people are doing weird
> > things and if they haven't yet, they will soon.
> > 
> > I continue to think this kind of links should be 1/ symlinks, 2/ relative
> > symlinks if they are in a situation which can become a cross device issue.
> 
> Yeah... but are they needed at all? :-)
> 
> I mean, whichever way we install manpages they are always installed into
> manX. I do not see a point / benefit of having another copy / link /
> whatever in manX/arch.
> 
> P.S.
> Adding support for "MSYMLINKS" is not that hard.
> But I'd rather remove some stuff than add some new stuff.
> 

There I fully agree I don't see the point of the initial change in the first place :D

Best regards,
Bapt