[mplayer-dev-eng] install localized manpages + [PATCH]

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:21:53PM +0100, Andreas Hess wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:15:42AM +0100, Gabucino wrote:
> > It creates the following:
> > /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/de/man1/mplayer.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/fr/man1/mplayer.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/hu/man1/mplayer.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/pl/man1/mplayer.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/de/man1/mencoder.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/fr/man1/mencoder.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/hu/man1/mencoder.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/pl/man1/mencoder.1.gz
> > /usr/share/man/man1/gmplayer.1.gz
> 
> Oh please, this sucks, I have no de fr hu etc. subdirs and I'm definitely
> not interested in mplayer creating them. And I think most of the users feel
> the same.

Finally someone who agrees! *sigh*

> > This is the GNUish way AFAIK, though you may argue about whether it's "optimal"
> > or not. I think it's good.
> 
> What is GNUish about that? Not a single GNU tool has ever created these
> subdirs on my system.

Agree^2! This sounds more like some distro's mess, since I have NEVER
had such dirs created by a "make install" until MPlayer did so
yesterday!

Rich