Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man <packagename>", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:00:03PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I THEREFORE PROPOSE:
>
> (1) each package should list the fully qualified path to every documentation
> file it installs. This list would be kept in /usr/share/doc/<packagename>.
>
> (2) each package should install a man page in some section (I dunno which
> one, but sect 1 is probably not a good idea) named such that one can
> type "man <packagename>" or "man <theSect> <packagename>".
cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less (or | grep bin)
works well enough for me. Well enough that I don't think any minor
improvements on it that require duplicating that information
elsewhere should be taken without a lot of thought.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.
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