Yelp 2.10 info and man pages.

John Bray jmblin at comcast.net
Tue Jun 28 22:51:01 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 14:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 23:04 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:39:39 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi;
> > > 
> > > I was hoping that the FC4 version of yelp 2.10 would have access to info
> > > and man pages the way some other distributions do.  Is there any plans
> > > to add info and man to FC4's version of Yelp.
> > 
> > AFAIK, only the development branch of Yelp implements that, and
> > the stable release doesn't [yet].
> 
> which is really too bad (imho)
> It is the easiest way for a n00b to view info documentation.
> 
> 
the smart package manager doesn't quite let you at man pages etc, but it
does let you view all the descriptions from the packages.

i was amazed at the understandings i got about what was out there as i
browsed through all the repo's packages in smart.  its gradually become
my only package manager because of that clarity.

john




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