[Nix-dev] Should I do something about /share/man?

[James Cook]

On 28 October 2015 at 09:56, Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick response!
>
> Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> writes:
>
>> Man files are supposed to be in the store as well.
>>
>> You should create a
>>
>>     $out/share/man/
>>
>> and move the man files of a program to this location.
>
> Sorry for being dense - where does $out come from? I.e. how can I set
> it to something other than "" and how would that avoid this problem:

In case anyone else was tempted to respond to this thread, note that
Michael filed a bug at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/10691
which is now closed.

James