Re: Bug#39830: debian-policy: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
Mark Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:32:35PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > Can you provide any positive arguments in *favor* of undocumented(7)?
> One thing undocumented(7) does is suggest some other ways to find
> documentation.
So could a two-line man page:
NAME
foo is a thingummy.
DESCRIPTION
foo is documented in /usr/doc/foo/ugly.html
In fact, this has the huge advantage of telling you where the
documentation for foo *is*, rather than merely listing all the places
where it *might* reside.
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Chris Waters xtifr@dsp.net | I have a truly elegant proof of the
or xtifr@debian.org | above, but it is too long to fit into
http://www.dsp.net/xtifr | this .signature file.
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