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Re: [ara] Tagged 1.0.3 (rev. 781)



On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:42:22PM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
> Agreed. I also suggest to have in ara's debian/control the following:
> 
> Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maint <debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org>
> Uploaders: some official DD
> 
> > >   - To decide what to do with xara.1 ; I suggest a very small
> > >   man page telling the user to go read ara(1) instead
> >
> > or have xara be a LNK to the ara manpage. See the ocamlc.opt manpage on how
> > it is done.
> 
> We will see that. Since xara-gtk does not Depends: on ara we should do that 
> for each binary package.

OK since it looks like it's going to be a P.I.T.A. I'm rewriting the manual
page.  We'll now have ara.tpl which generates via m4 ara.1 and xara.1.
(That's going to be for 1.0.4.)

> > Whyever that ?
> 
> since, ara might take use of /etc/alternatives/pager
> 
> -pager (-nopager)
>               Use (or don't use) a pager displaying long output in interactive 
> mode.  The pager command  is defined  in  the  configuration file 
> $HOME/.ara/ara.config.  By default this is /etc/alternatives/pager.  The 
> pager is only used when the output size exceeds the terminal height.
> 
> and all pagers are not in section:base and with low priorities. I also think 
> it is a good idea to Suggest: a pager or you have anything else in mind ?

I think we can suggest less since more sucks (Thomas should be happy).  I
see there is "most" also.
-- 
Berke Durak



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