Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation
> > > has been useless more often than I liked... thanks to undocumented(1).
On Mon, 28.08.00 13:03 -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Wasn't there a policy proposal to get rid of these bogus pages?
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 07:50:29PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> ... to be replaced by what? The maintainers simply won't write
> manpages en mass, so when deleting undocumented(1) many packages will
> have binaries without manpage making it harder for newbies to find the
> docs -> no benefit?
To be replaced by nothing. [At least, until a proper man page is
written.]
The rationale was that the presence of the undocumented man page doesn't
actually get rid of any bugs, yet it makes the system more cumbersome,
and less pleasant to use.
--
Raul
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