On 05/07/2009 06:06 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 16:52 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:46:31AM +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:33 +0200, nodata wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 04:47 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
>>>> Well, there are many upstreams rejecting Debian's patches outright,
saying
>>>> manpages are obsolete and redundant with any of:
>>>> * info documentation (those are mostly the GNU projects),
>>> /me still secretly hopes info pages go away.
>> +1
>>
>> From a usability point of view there's nothing that beats man pages.
> +1000
I see your 1000 and raise it 1000000. Personally, I think that Debian
have done a great service to the broader community by their insistence
on man pages for every package.
So long as it's not a man page that tells you to go read the info page.
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David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI