[Debichem-devel] Suggestion for the mdrun_mpi.{lam, mpich, openmpi}.1 man-pages

[Daniel Leidert]

Hi,

Maybe you saw it. I did a quality review of the man-pages in debichem.
The last package I was working on was GROMACS. I saw, that the
mdrun_mpi.lam.1, mdrun_mpi.mpich.1 and mdrun_mpi.openmpi.1 are almost
identical except one sentence. Further all these man-pages mention the
generic command mdrun_mpi.1 in their synopsis, ... So I thought, if we
can maybe ease this part a bit. Only write and maintain one man-page:
mdrun_mpi.1. This file should contain a general description of this
command [1] and IMO also mention the 3 different commands.

The man-pages for mdrun_mpi.{lam,mpich,openmpi}.1 can be "created" by
simply a) linking them or b) put

.so man1/mdrun_mpi.1

into mdrun_mpi.{lam,mpich,openmpi}.1 and run dh_installman.

What's your opinion?

[1] Mayne we should use the alternatives system to allow the usage
of /usr/bin/mdrun_mpi. Which one should get the highest priority, if you
agree to this idea?

Regards, Daniel