From: <burlingk@cv63.navy.mil>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:14:36 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14178ED3A898524FB036966D696494FB139CCC@messenger.cv63.navy.mil> (raw)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:iaindb@netspace.net.au]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:26 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader
>
> 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?
That is exactly what a number of packages do I think.
I have seen many of them that the man page and the
info page were identicle. More often though it looked
like they made a decent man page, and coppied it to info.
:-)
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-19 7:14 burlingk [this message]
2007-07-19 6:25 ` [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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2007-07-17 22:50 [gentoo-user] " Thufir
2007-07-17 23:12 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2007-07-17 23:51 ` Thufir
2007-07-18 12:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 12:35 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-07-18 14:20 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 15:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-18 16:06 ` Stroller
2007-07-18 17:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-19 7:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-07-19 0:31 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 13:30 ` Александър Л. Димитров
2007-07-18 19:35 ` Thufir
2007-07-19 0:25 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-19 0:51 ` Thufir
2007-07-19 11:36 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-07-19 14:02 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 0:02 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-07-18 6:53 ` Mick
2007-07-18 15:36 ` Neil Bothwick
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