Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
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> Date: 04 Jul 1999 12:26:55 +1000
> To: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>
> cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
> From: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
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> Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> writes:
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> > But this doesn't solve the other problem: dpkg -L shows these symlinks
> > as real man pages. This is annoying at least for me...
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> dpkg is not a documentation browser, it is a package manager. It really
> doesn't matter if dpkg -L shows symlinks or not, that is not its purpose.
I would think there are uses for cat that weren't on the mind of the
original author... I think it's a narrow viewpoint when someone limits
what something can possibly do because of its originally stated purpose.
If it doesn't break anything to mention that a man page is a link to
undocumented, then why not?
On the other hand, I would think one could alias dpkg -L as well, for a
purely local solution.
-Jim
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