Re: man pages
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >A manpage should cover arguments for the program - covering the entire
> >behaviour is way beyond the scope of a manpage.
>
> But the fact that ~ 25% of the programs in a Linux distribution has no man page
> at all it not good.
The LSB is about providing an environment for programs - not about what is
in the distributions themselves. Eg. even though the package format is
rpm v3 with some features removed, the distributions themselves won't use
it - we're continuing with rpm v4, debian with their debs etc.
>
> >> Programs that don't have one or where it is incomplete should not be a part
> >> of the base distribution.
>
> >Not a valid option for complex apps.
>
> Let's make an example:
>
> The fact that diff, cmp, tar have no man page at all is not acceptable.
They all have it on the Red Hat Linux 7.1 system I checked it on, and
probably on other systems as well...
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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