Re: Bug ?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

"John D. Coleman" <address@hidden> writes:
> Else the footnote should work. The footnote hopefully being placed near
> where the file 'ftpusers' is located. Or, maybe better, down at the bottom
> where you have the list of files.

Well, man pages are not the official source for information for GNU
projects, info pages are.  Footnotes pop up at the bottom when you
open them with info or the Emacs info mode.

> Thanks for having that file list BTW. Bash doesn't list e.v.e.r.y.
> s.i.n.g.l.e. file used or usable. I find references to them while reading
> about some other program. Some of those obscure files could be useful at
> times.

I think it does, see (bash)Bash Startup files.  Or do you mean
something else?

> > It would make it FHS compliant if it looked in /etc by default, but
> > this wouldn't follow the GNU Coding Standard where sysconfdir is set
> > to @prefix@/etc.
> 
> Sounds like it's past time to alter that standard. Have exceptions for
> configuration files. Isn't there one already for man pages ?

Which standard? The GCS? On GNU where prefix will be "" then you will
get the desired effect of having /etc, etc.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt