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Re: Why is the author of ps(1) such a moron?



On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:09:31PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> Am I the only one thinking the man page of ps(1) in potato really needs
> to be fixed?

No.

> .\" Man page for ps.
> .\" Quick hack conversion by Albert Cahalan, 1998.
> .\" Licensed under version 2 of the Gnu General Public License.
> .\"
> .\" This man page is a horrid hack because *roff sucks.
> .\" The whole system is way obsolete. The internal header
> .\" stuff must die, and will when I figure out how to kill it.
> .\" I've already killed the wasteful left margin and screwy
> .\" old perfect justification. Gross! You'd think someone
> .\" invented this crap in 1973. Oh yeah, they did. Sorry.

Perhaps attitudes like this are reflective of why Red Hat have been at the
forefront of projects like the LSB.  Er, yeah...

"I can't be bothered to learn it, therefore it sucks."

Maybe Debian should fork our own procps again.  At Red Hat it is obviously
under less than capable management.

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