RFC: Alternative to PRIVATELIB

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 24 19:02:23 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:00:45PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> 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.

Actually manpages is the complicated part of that proposal, so I may do manpages
in a second attempt :)

Best regards,
Bapt
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