I'm occasionally surprised by man pages that say "This was written for Debian, as no man page existed..." Granted, I normally stumble on them in amateur radio contexts, and I blamed ham radio for being bad at documentation rather than Linux...
But as a contradiction to my point... The 'sl' "utility" displays a steam locomotive scrolling across your terminal window. It's cute. But it's undocumented on most systems... So maybe it IS a Linux problem... Anyway, my "Answer" is to use Google to search for man pages... More often then not, it will bring up what I need. On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 15:51 logical american <[email protected]> wrote: > A brief question on sparse linux documentation for executable programs > > I did a survey of the 15,000+ executables on my openSuse Leap v42.3 OS > which has about 8869 software packages loaded according to zypper, but > 76% of them have no man page at all. I did find dozens of programs > running, such as gvfs, which are intrinsic to the OS and some apparently > embedded in the kernal, most running under systemctl control, but with > no documentation. > > For openSuse Leap v42.3, it appears that the linux developers just want > the product out the door and have not documented the /etc folder very well. > > Should we be concerned that 3/4 of the programs running on a linux OS do > not have a man page? > > I was a bit surprised to find this rather high ratio. Is it surprising? > > Randall > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
