Re: man missing ?
Quoting MallarJ@aol.com (MallarJ@aol.com):
> In a message dated 1/25/99 6:19:30 PM Central Standard Time,
> nielsen@primenet.com writes:
>
> > Debian 1.3 is somewhat obsolete, but I think you need to install the
> > man-db package, which is where the man command in 2.x is located.
>
> Why on earth isn't man part of the standard dist? I'd think it's important
> enough - not everyone is a Linux guru when the get their first copy.
Every package in the base installation has to be potentially /necessary/
for the installation process itself, not just desirable, i.e.
essential rather than important. For more details, see
/usr/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz section 2.3.6
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