Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

[Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net> wrote:

Nathan> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
Nathan> : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will
Nathan> : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a
Nathan> : good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that
Nathan> : prints a message explaining that the man pages are not yet there, where
Nathan> : to get them, how to install them, and where to find other sources of
Nathan> : information (/usr/doc, ww.debian.org, this list).

Nathan> <AOL>Agreed</AOL>

Nathan> Why hasn't this been done?

File a wishlist bugreport on boot-floppies.

You have to indicate your wishes, the developers can't think of
everything :-)

Ciao,
	Martin