On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 12:06:53AM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> > But this doesn't solve the other problem: dpkg -L shows these
> > symlinks as real man pages. This is annoying at least for me...

> But why on earth are you looking for manual pages with dpkg -L?

When I install a new package, I want to find out the name of the
binaries (not necessarily identical to the package name) and the
location of available documentation.

dpkg -L is the easiest way to find out the contents of a newly
installed package.

Ciao

        Roland

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