Re: Proposal regarding future packaging
John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> Ken Spath wrote:
>> Proposal regarding future packaging:
>>
>> Add an additional manual page to new/future/updated packages that is
>> the same as the package name. IF and only IF there would NOT be a
>> conflict with an existant necessary manual page AND IF there is no
>> binary in a package that is the same as the package name.
>
> I like this idea, especially if there were a short description about each
> program and relevent configuration files.
>
> % man foo
> [...]
Imho dpkg -s (or apt-cache show, ....) and dpkg -L are much more useful
than such a manpage.
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Bernd Zeimetz
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