On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:43:23 -0500 Michael Cummings
<mcummings@gentoo.org> wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
|   > man pages can't be considered optional (despite what RMS says).
|   > They're
| > not fancy extra HTML API documentation, they're core, so they don't
| > get a USE flag.
| 
| (not advocating a USE flag bug...) what about when the man pages are
| a duplication of the native documentation? perl module build process
| can generate man pages - but it is all a duplication of what you get
| from running perldoc instead.

Perl is of course speshul. perldoc is a man replacement which still
operates correctly in a basic command-line environment. Plus, doesn't
perldoc come with perl no matter what?

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