On 5/16/05, Steffen Kluge <kluge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > If I wanted to start working on the manpages (because I lack coding skills but want to help), then who would I contact? Does anybody have any requests for specific manpages? Such as Bluefish? Dotan Cohen http://Music-Liriks.com/ http://Music-Lyriks.com/
