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Re: Obscure Perl modules



Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen:
> Ahem. So, in order to find one package of interest, I should install a
> random number of packages and read the documentation afterwards? Or,
> maybe I could run an
> 
> apt-get install *
> 
> and be finished with it once and for all?
> 
> Thank you for a really imaginative suggestion.

You asked what you should do to read the documentation from a package.
If you want to read a package's documentation, you should install or at
least download the package.  Not rocket science there.  If your intent
is to browse the documentation for dozens of random packages in the hope
that you might need one, I would submit that you're going about it
wrong.  If your intent is to browse the documentation for dozens of
packages in order to determine if one will meet your needs, I would
submit that you should instead use a search engine.

-- 
Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar
Wilde

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