-- Seemant Kulleen Developer and Project Co-ordinator, Gentoo Linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant
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--- Begin Message ---On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:46, Tom Wesley wrote: > Why are coreutils man pages installed by any other package? Surely, if > I have a system (probably a door stop, admittedly) that doesn't have > coreutils installed, then I won't care about the man pages for that > package? > > What is the purpose of man-pages? As it turns out, GNU seems to idealogically despise man pages. As a result, the documentation that they provide in the form of man pages can, at best, blow goats. The man-pages package attempts to rectify this by providing superior documentation for things. -- Seemant Kulleen Developer and Project Co-ordinator, Gentoo Linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3458780E Key fingerprint = 23A9 7CB5 9BBB 4F8D 549B 6593 EDA2 65D8 3458 780E
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