On 27/11/08 00:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> That is a consistent problem in Linux. Everything except for MAN pages >> require tons of libraries, fonts, and too many supporting binaries. >> Linux needs a lightweight documentation system that works in both CLI >> and GUI environments. >> >> Proposed Fedora Feature: Revolutionary, Lightweight Documentation System > > +1 > > <rant> > I hate the increasing use of HTML docs instead of man pages. In old Unix > systems, man pages were concise, accurate and complete. Now we have > bloated, inaccurate, incomplete documentation that is hard to read and > hard to search. Large subsystems such as KDE have essentially no man > pages at all so you can't even read the docs without running a GUI. > > I just updated Evolution, and by far the largest rpm was the help docs. > 47 Megs for a set of poorly-indexed online help pages that doesn't even > cover all the features and has a barely functional search system, in > around 8 languages! > </rant> Amen. -- Erik. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
