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

[Rüdiger Kuhlmann]

>--[D Richard Felker III]--<dalias at aerifal.cx>
> 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.

This is neither silly, nor unnecessary. It is the proper behaviour.
And again, you flame what you don't understand.

> NO OTHER PROGRAM has ever created /usr/[local]/man/$lang dirs on my
> system,

Then you don't have localized programs on your machine.

$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man1 | wc -l
    157
$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man2 | wc -l
    156
$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man3 | wc -l
    284
$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man4 | wc -l
     18
$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man5 | wc -l
     32
$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man6 | wc -l
      2
$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man7 | wc -l
     17
$ ll /usr/share/man/de/man8 | wc -l
      9

One of those man pages, by the way, are the man pages from xine.

> so obviously they know they're not supposed to automatically.

This seems to be not the first time in this thread that you're simply wrong.

> I suggest you figure out how to properly do this if you want mplayer to
> install multi-lingual manuals!

Don't you notice that you're the only one in this thread not understanding
it?

> 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.

A mostly correct patch was already posted.

Yours, Rüdiger.

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