Lefteris Dimitroulakis wrote: > With all due respect to lfs-dev's, to you and to the holly book, > it will be very bizarre if lfsbook uses the Man package > and at the same time is claiming > that the included in the package man-pages > are NOT readable for whatever reason.
Let's clarify the situation a bit. There are three possible outcomes for "man foo" in the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale: 1) Glibberish (unacceptable, but, unfortunately, what happens if the system is misconfigured by an English-speaking editor who doesn't know how to test the configuration) 2) "No such manual page" (well, OK if it indeed doesn't exist) 3) English manpage (acceptable, although not ideal) 4) Russian manpage. Reaching (4) means non-default configuration of Man that has to be explained. Explanation means understanding by editors. Are you sure that English-speaking editors have motivation to understand all the details and can immediately see their errors? Do you know that, in the past, some English-speaking readers refused to follow the new book after "magic" (from their viewpoint, i.e., "not understandable") changes in man setup happened and "magic" patches were added to coreutils, grep and diffutils, and that we lost some editors due to the same reason? Such "magic" patches undermine the educational nature of the book. You see - there is a fundamental conflict between "100% correct" and "educational", so a proposal is being made to adopt a suboptimal, but easily understandable setup. (no offense meant to English-speaking editors and readers in this paragraph) So: do you mean "it will be very bizarre if lfsbook uses the Man package and at the same time produces glibberish" (which I agree with) or "it will be very bizarre if lfsbook uses the Man package and at the same time patches it to never display translated manual pages, even though they are installed"? > And yes, I use the default /etc/man.conf. > and my personal files for configuration needed in order > to read man-pages in the encoding of my preference, > legacy or utf8. Very interesting, however, on my system, no packages installed Greek manual pages. Where you got them from, except the "man" package (that doesn't install them if one passes "+lang none")? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
