Documentation cleanup issues

[bill davidsen]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212031316160.8548-100000 at puck.litech.org>,
Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> wrote:
| 
| On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
| 
| > Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
| > 
| > > - When we have multiple manpages rolled into one (I'm thinking send-uucp
| > >   and friends here), do we want to install them as symlinks so `man foo`
| > >   always works even if foo is incorporated into some other manpage?
| > 
| > Yes, please.
| 
| Any thoughts on a good way to do this?  It's a shame that we do the 
| manpage installation with an explicit loop rather than by dependencies and 
| general rules (I assume it's because non-GNU make has no way to prepend 
| the installation path to a whole list of filenames?).

Given the size of the files and news machines, I wouldn't put too much
effort into avoiding a few duplicates. This may be a good idea in the
abstract, but in practice it really doesn't matter, does it?
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.