Note on man pages

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 16:52 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:46:31AM +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:33 +0200, nodata wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 04:47 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> > > > Well, there are many upstreams rejecting Debian's patches outright, saying
> > > > manpages are obsolete and redundant with any of:
> > > > * info documentation (those are mostly the GNU projects),
> > > 
> > > /me still secretly hopes info pages go away.
> > 
> > +1
> >         
> > From a usability point of view there's nothing that beats man pages.
> 
> +1000

I see your 1000 and raise it 1000000. Personally, I think that Debian
have done a great service to the broader community by their insistence
on man pages for every package.

Regards,
Bryn.