From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IBJyB-0000hM-CC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:34:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6J0Vx4o004388; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:31:59 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out5.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6J0PS6d028690 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:25:29 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DB81715A5 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:25:26 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070718133043.GA6012@brmbr.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> <20070718133043.GA6012@brmbr.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Message-Id: <1184804758.7158.47.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6J0Vx59004388 X-Archives-Salt: 74e51abd-ac5a-4579-bb4e-d6389019ba87 X-Archives-Hash: f147c9435d9c2395d2f9e2cc8b5565b5 On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:30 +0200, =D0=90=D0=BB=D0=B5=D0=BA=D1=81=D0=B0=D0= =BD=D0=B4=D1=8A=D1=80 =D0=9B. =D0=94=D0=B8=D0=BC=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=80=D0=BE=D0= =B2 wrote: > On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: > > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! >=20 > I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) [snip] > Note that it's usually better to refer to the info command for more > serious documentation about GNU tools in general. RMS and his guys don'= t=20 > exactly seem to like manpages that much that's what they have info for.= =20 > They have their point, but that's another flame war ;-) I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is different, less informative, and quite misleading. Instead, is should say either nothing but "refer to info pages"; or it should be the same as the info pages... would anyone agree? --=20 Iain Buchanan The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish. -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list