On 12/18/2011 07:28 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> If you were creating a new GNU program from scratch and were starting >> to write documentation for it then the format of that documentation >> would be expected to be texinfo format. Documentation in the format >> of a man page is optional. It might not exist at all. > > I have seldom seen a well developed package (not necessarily GNU > packages) without manpages. In fact, I don't remember I have seen any. > Do you have any statistics on what packages (not necessarily GNU) have > manpage but not infopage and what packages have infopages but not > manpages.
GNU tar is a classic example that has an info page but not a man page. At least coreutils provides man pages at all. Most non-GNU programs are examples that have man pages but not info pages, but, being non-GNU, that explains why they don't comply with the GNU Coding Standards to favor info over man. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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