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Re: Debian 1.1 man & more



On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote:

> > Is there any reason the default PAGER on Debian should not be set to less
> > out of the box?
> 
> less is not a base package, so might not be installed.  more is one
> third the size of less, and it's very important to keep the base
> packages as small as possible.

Couldn't the default scripts check if less is present and set PAGER 
acordingly?

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Ben McKeegan                                              CST 1a
Fitzwilliam College,
University of Cambridge. 


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