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Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man <packagename>", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section



Julian Gilbey wrote:

> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 05:11:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a really good reason why we shouldn't have long package names?
> > 
> > dpkg -l, but this is not a really good reason :-)
> 
> I had thought of that one, and I agree with your evaluation of its
> significance.  You see, dpkg -l gives 14 columns of package name in an
> 80-column terminal, so you would see:
> 
> debian-doc
> debian-packagi
> debian-policy
> debian-newmain
> debian-develop
> 
> The only one which would be a problem is debian-developers-reference.
> Maybe debian-devel-reference, chopped to debian-devel-r by dpkg -l?

How about:

                         12345678901234
deb-docs             ->  deb-docs           
deb-packaging        ->  deb-packaging      
deb-policy           ->  deb-policy         
deb-newmaintaibner   ->  deb-newmaintai
deb-devel-reference  ->  deb-devel-refe

?



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