On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:54:04AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Some programs are just complex -- not many people can claim to know > what every file in the linux kernel can do. Not many people can claim > to know sendmail/qmail/exim/smail/postfix inside and out. X? Ouch. (If > you, the gentle reader, do know s/q/e/m/p or X inside and out, perhaps > then a nice feeling of smugness is called for. :)
This is a completely spurious argument. For example, take qmail: (1) It includes a manual page for every included program, and (2) It's not even a debian package. Or, for example, there's no "X" debian package. Yet, if you look at xbase-clients, for example, you'll see that there's an outstanding bug report for every program which is missing a binary. Finally, there's no requirement in policy that every single file have a man page. Ever single program, sure, but that's not the same thing. -- Raul
