Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:54:04AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Some programs are just complex -- not many people can claim to know
> what every file in the linux kernel can do. Not many people can claim
> to know sendmail/qmail/exim/smail/postfix inside and out. X? Ouch. (If
> you, the gentle reader, do know s/q/e/m/p or X inside and out, perhaps
> then a nice feeling of smugness is called for. :)
This is a completely spurious argument.
For example, take qmail:
(1) It includes a manual page for every included program, and
(2) It's not even a debian package.
Or, for example, there's no "X" debian package. Yet, if you look at
xbase-clients, for example, you'll see that there's an outstanding bug
report for every program which is missing a binary.
Finally, there's no requirement in policy that every single file have
a man page. Ever single program, sure, but that's not the same thing.
--
Raul
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