Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man <packagename>", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 06:38:04PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
>But: what about packages such as dpkg, where the package name is also
>the name of a command? Should we introduce a new command, call it
>packageinfo, which uses man to do the above things?
I'm don't think that messing with man is such a good idea. A seperate
script/program to filter `dpkg -L' is certainly fairly trivial, although
I'm not completely convinced that it's required/useful:
# <URL: http://master.debian.org/~bod/pkgman>
$ pkgman dpkg make
dpkg: cleanup-info(8), dpkg(8), dpkg-deb(1), dpkg-divert(8), dpkg-split(8),
dselect(8), install-info(8), md5sum(1), start-stop-daemon(8),
update-alternatives(8) and update-rc.d(8).
make: make(1).
$ pkginfo dpkg make
Package `dpkg' has no info pages.
make: make.
Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9809 0133
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