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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2025 10:37:57 +0200
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Subject:	Re: acl man pages {and others?} (Was: symbolic link curiosity in
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From:	Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Mar 31 23:26, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2025-03-31 12:49, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mar 31 12:35, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> [...]
> > > Has anyone a feel if there are any other projects on that list whose man
> > > pages would be useful under Cygwin even if the package itself is not
> > > available, or even individual man pages where they are not currently
> > > available?
> 
> > We have quite a few functions which might be only available on BSD systems,
> > and we have these Solaris ACL functions which don't exist on Linux.  We
> > probably can't use the man pages from Solaris due to copyright constraints,
> > but the FreeBSD man pages should be ok.
> 
> The Solaris man pages were made available under the CDDL or PDL derived from
> MPL: we have Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris 2010 available on the freebsd.org
> site,
> a well as most other OSes anyone might want: 520 of them, from 7th Edition,
> 2.10BSD, 386BSD, thru 4.4Lite2, .

Oh, great.

> Space required for FreeBSD man pages is comparable to man-pages-linux -
> should we make all FreeBSD 15.0 current man pages available similar to
> man-pages-linux - man-pages-freebsd package and directory under
> /usr/share/man/ symlinked as freebsd for convenience with man -m|--systems
> SYSTEM,...?
> 
> Or should we stick to the original idea and package only selected missing
> man pages in the other sections of posix.xml as man-pages-extra?

Your call.  As long as we don't have dedicated people creating matching
man pages for Cygwin (very unlikely for such a small project), we'll
never have 100% accurate man pages either way.  So it might be a bit too
much hassle to tweak the FreeBSD man pages into a form matching Cygwin.

The only question is, assuming as a user I have have man-pages-linux
and man-pages-freebsd installed.  How do I decide on the command line
which of them I see?


Thanks,
Corinna

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