-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- So you are saying that packers are omitting an EXISTING manpage, and instead putting a link to the undocumented.7 page? You are right, this IS a bug, and yes, its the kind that is unlikely to be found for quite a while. However, what about the more common case where there IS no manpage? Then, I believe it is useful. Whether a manpage exists or not, that symlink to undocumented.7 encourages people either to write a manpage or find the existing one and add it if they want it enough. I would like to vote NO on this issue. undocumented.7 is yet one more aspect of our userfriendliness and "principle of least astonishment".
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: > > I object to this; it provides useful information (i.e. there isn't a > > manpage for this, but we know about it), at little cost in terms of > > time&disk space. > > Hmm, I guess it's re-hashing time :) The point of this proposal was > that the presence of an "undocumented" manpage *doesn't* provide > that information, it only pretends to. There is little correlation > between "undocumented" links and "missing manpage" bugreports. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOHNqa8K9HT/YfGeBAQEQBwP8DTiZMelkOqlOl5D2DdoutfZ4ecZTW4Lg g5DZfQC16RJfIbzwixGtUZ6WdOgiU0aV671eIXDHzg+dxJdeR6Zf4BtiovZPtpRz 9QvrZUuVguyA9H20sEWlBVAtixvILvWn3NS/Sdswk2iBOAJnRtlHOVBPn6QcWFXB rkc6CV19d38= =jkTC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
