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

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.

-- 
Andriy Gapon