[mplayer-dev-eng] Re: install localized manpages +

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:29:16AM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> 
> >--[D Richard Felker III]--<dalias at aerifal.cx>
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:11:50PM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > >--[Andreas Hess]--<jaska at gmx.net>
> > > > So how should 'make install' behave? Install the english version as the
> > > > default version in '/usr/local/man/man1'? And why can't be the russian,
> > > > polish, french, etc. version, the default version for all locales?
> > > Install the English version as default in $(mandir)/man1, and all selected
> > > man pages (via $LINGUAS, which should default to all except English if unset)
> > > into their respective subdirectory. If you don't want to check for $LINGUAS,
> > > just install all of them. (man pages aren't large anyway, and it's up to
> > > a packager to remove them if he doesn't like them, or put them into a
> > > -doc package).
> 
> > It's just a mess and wastes time and disk space and leads to clutter.
> 
> It's neither a mess nor a notable waste of disc space. I doubt it is
> clutter as well. Just set $LINGUAS to empty, problem solved.

This is a silly and unnecessary step. NO OTHER PROGRAM has ever
created /usr/[local]/man/$lang dirs on my system, so obviously they
know they're not supposed to automatically. I suggest you figure out
how to properly do this if you want mplayer to install multi-lingual
manuals!

If there's not an acceptable fix soon, I'll just commit a patch to
make it install the English man page for now, duplicating the old
behavior. Then we can worry about this later.

Rich