On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >A manpage should cover arguments for the program - covering the entire > >behaviour is way beyond the scope of a manpage. > > But the fact that ~ 25% of the programs in a Linux distribution has no man > page > at all it not good.
The LSB is about providing an environment for programs - not about what is in the distributions themselves. Eg. even though the package format is rpm v3 with some features removed, the distributions themselves won't use it - we're continuing with rpm v4, debian with their debs etc. > > >> Programs that don't have one or where it is incomplete should not be a part > >> of the base distribution. > > >Not a valid option for complex apps. > > Let's make an example: > > The fact that diff, cmp, tar have no man page at all is not acceptable. They all have it on the Red Hat Linux 7.1 system I checked it on, and probably on other systems as well... -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
