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Re: Where to find missing documentation



On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:31:55AM EDT, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> >
> >I think many docs have been moved to non-free, though you are not
> >being clear about which documentation.
> >
> >For example, the ConTeXt typesetting package has it's doc in
> >context-doc-nonfree, which is in pool/non-free/c/context-doc-nonfree/
> >
> >So, you might want to add non-free to your sources.list, if you
> >already haven't done so.
> >
> >Kumar
> 
> Some of the documentation has indeed been moved to 'nonfree', like gcc, 
> tetex and phpdoc, and I had no trouble installing those.
> 
> But many manpages refer to the complete documentation, but 'info <command>' 
> gives me the manual page itself. 

This is	called phishing.

info should display a banner saying "Sorry .. can't have it"? 

"The full documentation for [name of package / command]  is maintained
as a Texinfo manual" 

Yeah, right.






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