Note on man pages

[David Cantrell]

On 05/07/2009 06:06 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> 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.

So long as it's not a man page that tells you to go read the info page.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI