Disk space and mirror resources would make ALL man pages and info pages and doc pages for EVERYTHING to be prohibitive... On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 08:27:00PM -0400, Ken Hendrickson wrote: > Suggestions for Improvement: > > * Put complete man pages for every package on www.Debian.org. > o (Note that OpenBSD does this.) > * Put complete /usr/doc and /usr/info documentation for every package > on www.Debian.org, with the appropriate HTML cgi readers. > * Put man pages for everything associated with the install processes > on CDs. > > Rational: > > I'm doing another install, and the CD-Roms I've just received for Potato > mention the (probably ultra cool) apt-cdrom(8) method for multiple CDs. > I'd like to use it! However, I don't have another Debian system handy > now, and the man page stuff isn't installed yet. It would be cool if I > had access to the man pages for apt-cdrom(8). Sure, I can read the man > page source in /usr/man/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz, and I am, but it would be > very nice if all those formatting characters didn't get in the way to > confuse me. > > Thanks in Advance, > Ken Hendrickson > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-doc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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