On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:36, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'll refer you first to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32096
> 
> Then I'll ask two questions:
> 
> 1.  Should man-pages really belong in the base system (emerge system)?
> 
> 2. Which package's manpages should be preferred, assuming (as is correct
> to assume at least until portage-ng comes out) that portage has no
> conflicting-files-resolution feature?

I think it would be beneficial to have man-pages included by default,
but not in a way that make them a required component of the system. (ie,
so users can emerge unemerge man-pages with no problems.)

System commands (man-pages) should be preferred over the C function
calls.

-- 
Regards,
-Lisa
<Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior>

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