Le lundi 14 janvier 2002, � 10:36 PM, Max Horn a �crit :
> 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.
I agree
>
>> 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.
I agree too
> At 18:07 Uhr -0500 13.01.2002, David R. Morrison wrote:
>> Maybe we can also file a bug report with Apple and ask them to restore
>> o, l, n to /etc/man.conf?
>
> I think one should rather file a bug report against anything actually
> using these sections. That includes any linux distro that does so.
I still agree :-)
I think (for once ;-) Apple made a good move by not using these 3
vague man directories.
--
Zauc
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