Re: Move undocumented.7.gz -> man-db?
On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 01:30:15PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why is undocumented.7.gz in manpages? On a machine which doesn't have
> manpages installed running `man' results in a screenful of unhelpful
> warnings:
>
> I don't want or need manpages on this machine, but I don't want to see
> that crud every time man's index is updated. Wouldn't
> undocumented.7.gz be better placed in man-db?
>
> If I'm missing something blatantly obvious, please tell me, otherwise
> I'll file bugs on man-db & manpages* asking for the move.
>
Well. man-db isn't essential, and there are also other man-browsers
(man2html, xman, tkman ...).
But your suggestion is correct.
Nut I would prefere an essential package (se we'll be sure that manpage
is there) and a debian specific one.
My candidate is debianutils .
fab
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