RFC: Alternative to PRIVATELIB

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 24 19:00:41 UTC 2015


On 4/24/2015 1:57 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 4/11/2015 9:28 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> Prefix all manpage with private_ so that we can provide the documentation for
>> the said libs for the version we ship but if another version is shipped by ports
>> then we can easily access both documentation.
>>
> 
> This sounds useful for debugging and developing base applications which
> need these private libs.

However I would suggest a /usr/share/man/private that you can access by
setting MANDIR. Prefixing all manpages with 'private_' will get silly
with cross-references and function_name.3 files.


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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