[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] the man-pages package]

[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] the man-pages package]

[Seemant Kulleen]

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On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:46, Tom Wesley wrote:

> Why are coreutils man pages installed by any other package?  Surely, if
> I have a system (probably a door stop, admittedly) that doesn't have
> coreutils installed, then I won't care about the man pages for that
> package?
> 
> What is the purpose of man-pages?

As it turns out, GNU seems to idealogically despise man pages.  As a
result, the documentation that they provide in the form of man pages
can, at best, blow goats.  The man-pages package attempts to rectify
this by providing superior documentation for things.


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