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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:22:37AM +0100, Andreas Hess wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:10:45PM +0100, Gabucino wrote:
> > Andreas Hess wrote:
> > > How often a "make install" has created these directories for you?
> > I don't have too much 'make install'-ed stuff right now. 'mc' is for sure.
> > 
> > On the other hand, show me that the majority of source installed software
> > out there installs ONLY the english manpage. Then we'll do the same.
> 
> I can't speak for the majority of the source installed software, but
> for the approximate 100 packages I have installed in my /usr/local and
> /opt trees I've never requested localized stuff, so none has installed
> localized stuff. I just hope, that mplayer behaves the same, I don't
> request localized manpages, so I don't get localized manpages.
> 
> > I don't want to fight the idea of only one manpage, but so far I only heard
> > 'I don't wanna multiple', and not 'MPlayer is the only software with this
> > behaviour' !
> 
> For me mplayer is the only software with this behaviour.

Same here. I believe I've already said so quite a few times, and
someone's been ignoring me. For someone who hates Debian's policy so
much, Gabucino sure seems committed to their man page installation
'standard'... ;)

> > Isn't this topic a bit exaggerated?
> 
> Yes, it is. In the end, you're the one with CVS access, it's your decision.
> I can live with patching mplayer locally for myself, hope the rest of the users
> can live with it too.

I have CVS access, and I first patched the Makefile to just install
the man page selected by --language at compile time. Unfortunately
Gabu then applied his own patch with this nonsense. I'm not going to
start a childish CVS war changing things back and forth, but I would
like to see a proper fix for this.

Rich