From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz9lp-0001Se-JB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:28:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEC26E0B81; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410A7E0B7A for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id E06384016D; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:27:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1270564098; bh=5yexXD0Cr9gWmbSOXTFwROWr9KToqYNogroeD8RURnQ=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=vA4lQtigFPFYHPurbqB9lUoXG9ns2lmAEmeKrNutooWEz5EJEsAR1pBq4rplQFYpY gEFzCEzkwXKVCINSyMx/QcOO8TTmVW6TBSk2/46cZuAMR8wVXpcnztB7w0rU0qwY1s YQy3XhywzeUsDWJ1V0BmSEw/BZBAEJ3qCzlFAaoE= Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7B27BA011E; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:28:00 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass In-Reply-To: <20100404012509.24141bbc@lappy.evolone.org> (Michael Higgins's message of "Sun, 4 Apr 2010 01:25:09 -0700") References: <20100330111154.GA28735@veller.net> <20100403122902.TAc3125.tv@veller.net> <20100404012509.24141bbc@lappy.evolone.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2009 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:27:36 -0400 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Hashcash: 1:30:100406:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::jnvcIOUiIbOu0G43:0000000000000000000000000000000002kV7H X-Archives-Salt: 54858bd0-731b-4bad-bdff-3d8ff4e3c48a X-Archives-Hash: efd1b28d1f52387f6f2c2bb759e4c569 >>>>> "MH" == Michael Higgins writes: MH> Yep. Why have a man page for a perl module? OTOH, if there is something MH> that goes in /usr/bin, it should get a man page if there is one. But MH> not for the modules themselves -- that's not needed at all. Because man(1) works better than the alternatives; it is the unix way; it is the first thing one types when searching for documentation. The idea that the man pages are somehow uneeded is incomprehensible. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6