[PATCH:xdm] Add chooser shadow man page pointing to xdm man page
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Apr 1 14:50:35 PDT 2011
On 04/ 1/11 02:46 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:02:49 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35868
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>> ---
>> man/Makefile.am | 2 +-
>> man/chooser.man | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 man/chooser.man
>>
> I don't think we should do this. As I said in the bug, chooser is not
> in $PATH, is an internal xdm program, so doesn't need a manpage IMO.
> Plus 'chooser' in the global namespace seems bad.
Yeah, I think you and I read the bug about the same time, and our responses
to it (yours in bugzilla, mine in emacs/git) crossed paths in the ether.
I'd forgotten it was installed in $libdir/xdm - while it's nice to be able
to track a running daemon to a man page, the "xdm" in the path should help
with that. Since we don't take the $bindir/chooser path in the namespace,
it does make sense that we shouldn't claim chooser(1) in the corresponding
man page name space.
Consider this patch withdrawn. Thanks for providing useful feedback.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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