Bug#39830: [AMENDMENT]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I personally find the undocumented (7) man page frustrating,
> since I expected to see documentation, and was told there was none
> after a wait (yes, I had a slow machine). I would have much rather
> not had my hopes raised, and that man itself told me there was no
> manual page.
How about if we made this configurable:
Move undocumented.7.gz to undocumented.real.7.gz
Create a symlink from the former to the latter in the postinst upon
installation or upgrading from a version without it. Then people
who don't want to see it can simply delete the symlink.
They would get a warning from man of course, but that should be easy
to special case in man(1).
Personally I think the manual page would be useful to users new
to Debian.
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