From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15665 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Mar 2003 15:26:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5403 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2003 15:26:22 -0000 From: Brian Jackson To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:25:05 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <1046635348.3934.2.camel@wintermute.atriaky.sk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303070925.05956.brian@mdrx.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] missing man pages (Was: [gentoo-user] Re: en_US.UTF-8 unknown?) X-Archives-Salt: 3bd5c998-10bd-4500-998f-c5e360495bfc X-Archives-Hash: 8615b9f8b03511db30f2fee8241635a8 On Friday 07 March 2003 01:56 am, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: > >>>>> "gabor" == gabor writes: > > gabor> long answer: > gabor> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34923&highlight=%2Autf%2A+%2Aglibc >%2A > > gabor> short answer: do this as root: "localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US > en_US.UTF-8" > > That link mentions that gentoo lacks a man page for localdef(1), not > to mention one for locale(7). > > Other dists have these man pages. Debian in general requires a man > page for every command, et al. > > Gentoo should start a policy to also require man pages. Most of the > work is already done: grab the pages from the debs and/or rpms. > (More precisely from the sources for the debs and rpms.) > > Clearly the licensing permits such cross-pollination. Take advantage > of it. > > -JimC > > P.S. Wierd! ispell -- even though as installed here is older than > gentoo -- recognized gentoo as spelled correctly, but did not > recognize debian.... Nor does it recognize redhat or suse. :-) If you read about where the gentoo name came from it is an actual word. It's some small fast penguin from some islands. Look around on the gentoo website if you are that interested. > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list