At 16:05 Uhr -0700 13.01.2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote: >Max: > >I think the best solution for now is to create fink man package and have >packages like tcltk that put stuff in sections not supported by the apple >man, depend on it. To that end, I've added a man package to unstable. > >Eventually, I if this works satisfactorily, I think we should consider >making this an essential package.
I specifically wrote I am strongly opposed to making it essential. The simplest and strongest reason against it simply is: it is not essential. The fewer packages are in essential, the better. If you look, the only things in there are fink&base-files; some debian tools; and some tools required to unpack source archives. Man OTOH is in no way mission critical. >You might be interested to know than the default configuration of man >supports sections o, l and n. Apple obviously make the conscious decision >to remove them. I checked my linux and solaris boxes here at work and >they also have l, o and n man sections. I know, and I consider it a shortcoming of theirs, a bad design decision, that is still being carried one, because "everybody has it". Which IMHO is no good reason to keep using it. Oh well, I don't want to start a war on this, but I do feel quite strongly about it. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
