On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 06:58:37PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Aoife Moloney:
> == Detailed Description ==
> The split between `/bin` and `/sbin` is not useful, and also unused.
Programs in /usr/bin have their documentation in section 1 of the
manual, while programs /usr/sbin are documented in section 8. (In
general, I deliberately used /usr/bin/ld.so although the manual page was
already called ld.so(8), without a program of this name existing.)
When moving programs, should we move the manual pages as well? Or at
least add a link so that that section 1 references work?
The manual sections have historical meaning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections
eg.
1 = general commands
8 = system administration
So unless the tools themselves are changing their purpose or are in
the wrong section now, the manual sections should stay the same.
Rich.
Is there something we can do to help developers on Fedora systems to
write portable code (not just shell scripts) after this change is rolled
out?
Thanks,
Florian
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