On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 05:12 -0400, - wrote: > Making use of Fedora's shell is becoming absolutely > useless!! Alot of manpages for Extra pacakges are not > even bundled.. and making use of apropos is becoming > more and more powerless. Much of the core stuff has their man pages in a separate package called man-pages. Do you have that installed? > Enforce this policy, on > Debian these policies are very well defined and all my > packages show up switfly with apropos. Even bluefish? I find it hard to believe that Fedora packagers drop man pages out of malice or laziness, if they really exist. > Now what's so > hard about including manpages and whatis support with > the packages? If i want to know which program I have > for html editing for eg, bluefish would not show up > under apropos nor whatis. That's right, the bluefish-0.13-0.fdr.2.2 (still on FC2 over here) package doesn't contain a man page :( However, I believe this is because nobody has written one yet. If Debian has a bluefish man page I wonder where they got it from? > -- There are also core system > utilities that are not even bundled with manpages-- As mentioned above, install package man-pages. That said, I wholeheartedly agree that man pages are in important part of any Unix system, and are not be neglected. It would appear that this is an area where OSS users that think they can't contribute anything of value (because they lack coding skills) could really get cracking...:) Cheers Steffen.
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