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Re: [groff] Announcement and call for project submissions


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [groff] Announcement and call for project submissions
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:22:58 +0000

Hi Ingo,

> So i think installing the binaries with a command prefix is a very
> reasonable choice.

I don't.  :-)  Not unless a user typically wants to keep both
accessible, e.g. on Sun OS where some things depend on other's old
behaviour.

For man(1), a user doesn't want to alter muscle memory for `man ls'.
If the project's current standards are to avoid sitting in front of the
default command then the best solution was as the project maintainers
suggested: the user modifies their PATH as directed.  It's a one-off
operation done as part of their installing it compared with `man foo',
realise something's wrong, hopefully, curse, and then `_man foo'.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.



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