On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 08:51 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:46 +0100, Mark Knoop wrote: > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > It was recently revealed, at least to me, that the reason : > > > man cdrecord does no work is that cdrecord is a softlink to wodim. > > > > > > Now my local ubantu person point out in ubantu running man cdrecord > > > returns the man page of modim. This he attributes to ubantu being more > > > carefull about details, > > > > > > First is this true about ubantu and is it worthwhile to file a bugzilla > > > RFE on man to get fedora to mirror this functionality. It seems on the > > > surface a simple extension to implement so I wonder why it was not done > > > in Fedora. > > > > This was discussed less than a week ago on both this list and > > subsequently on fedora-devel. > > > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296611 > > > BTW, it's ubuntu, not ubantu... > You are right I can'r spell. But it seems to me the bugzilla you > referenced has the wrong slant. I assume what ubuntu does is that man > detects the softlinkm and follows it. That is what should be done in > Fedora. The bug is now closed so I can't add a comment which is > frustrating. Nothing actually prevents you from adding comments to closed bugs. If you are persuasive, you might even get it re-opened. (If you are the original submitter, you can re-open it yourself.) > > -- > > Mark Knoop > > > -- > ======================================================================= > Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs. > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
