Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: use man viewer path from "man.<tool>.path" config var

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

Le vendredi 21 mars 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
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For example, if a distro offers two versions of konq to co-exist on the
same system as konqueror-3 and konqueror-4 (with the usual symlink tricks
/etc/alternatives/konqueror -> konqueror-3 and /usr/bin/konqueror ->
/etc/alternatives/konqueror to make one version the systemwide default),
people who want a particular version may say /usr/bin/konqueror-4 and
would get frustrated to see kfmclient magic would not kick in.  By taking
honest route without magic, you would not have to worry about such
potential confusion.

In my experience KDE people have never changed the binary names like that. 
They just use (or advice users to use) different directory names and change 
environment variables (QTDIR, KDEDIR and maybe others) to point to the new 
dirs.

I was more worried about what distro people do, not "KDE people".  For
example, Contents-i386.gz file from an unnamed distribution lists a
handful /usr/bin/k*[0-9] files with their counterparts without the
trailing digit.