On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:01:30PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > requirement to have a manpage for every binary. In some larger
> > packages, it's pretty difficult to find out what some of those
> > binaries do, except that to say that if you take one of them out of
> > the path, something will break. They don't always have online help.
>
> I would expect that a mantainer have a little knowledge of his package. If
The point was that it takes more than a "little knowledge" in the
case of large packages.
> a binary is not meant to be called by the user, it is a bug to have it in
> the PATH.
Yup. It probably is. In some cases, a permanent bug, since sheer
logistics are going to prevent some things from being fixed. So do
you prefer that instead of having a bug filed for a missing manpage,
you have a bug filed for a possibly incorrect location? Because
there's going to be an outstanding report either way.
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