On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:46:10AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > What's the justification for putting incomplete information in the > manpages that's already available to another text tool on the same > package? > > It is a compromise for users like yourself who expect things to be in > man pages (the man pages we produce as really --help formated using > troff; it is better to just use --help). On the GNU system and its > variants like Debiaan GNU/Linux, the standard for documentation is > infact info, and not man pages. This has been the case for over 20 > years.
The standard for documentation has been man for longer than that... It should be complete. > If you don't like GNU info, you can try the info reader in Emacs, or > pinfo. And if you are still unhappy, you can browse our manuals in > various formats like PDF, web pages or buy them in the form of dead > trees from http://shop.fsf.org/. I already addressed all that. slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
