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Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.



On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:46:49PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Zed" == Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org> writes:
> 
>  Zed>     This requirement cannot then be placed concurrently with the
>  Zed> requirement to have a manpage for every binary.  In some larger
>  Zed> packages, it's pretty difficult to find out what some of those
>  Zed> binaries do, except that to say that if you take one of them out
>  Zed> of the path, something will break.  They don't always have
>  Zed> online help.
> 
>   a) If the maintainer does not know what every binary in the common
>      PATH is doing, he should give the package to someone who is
>      willing to spend the time to learn the package.

I guess I need to put xbase-clients up for adoption then.

I've run the programs and even glanced over the source and STILL don't
enough to write a decent manpage for xkbbell, xkbvleds, or xkbwatch.

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