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cjxgm

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From: Zhejiang, China

Registered: 2013-09-03

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What to do if my package's manpages conflict another package?

I'm packaging c++ manpages generated from cppreference, but I found that gcc also provides c++ man pages (of course the contents are different and I think the gcc one is almost unreadable).

Of course I should not write conflicts=('gcc'), and, according to the arch packaging standards, I should never install my manpages into /usr/local/share/man/, then how can I solve the problem?

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: What to do if my package's manpages conflict another package?

First and foremost, if you are unhappy with the gcc docs, report a bug and send in your patch upstream.

ids1024

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Registered: 2013-08-16

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Re: What to do if my package's manpages conflict another package?

See the plan9port package.  It places manpages in a custom location then adds it to MANPATH with a script in /etc/profile.d.

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lolilolicon

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Re: What to do if my package's manpages conflict another package?

I suppose you can also install them as e.g. /usr/share/man/man3/foo.3cpp.gz

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