From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVMV7-00072X-EJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:55:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CFB9E0394; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA35E0394 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E835B46FFE7 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:55:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:55:43 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Message-ID: <20090206085543.49a51750@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <035fe144ae92123031ae61b9f7ef80ab.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> References: <200902052010.25653.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200902052036.05303.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <498B42D4.3060005@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0902051220m35e15s2171a98bba6cf82e@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0902051232u6ad8a601ge4b88791ddb36397@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0902051257v68c80142x18d8902a3aa7f7c1@mail.gmail.com> <498B5DAF.8040000@gmail.com> <498B6ED1.2090507@gmail.com> <498B7053.7010708@gmail.com> <498B7026.4000502@gmail.com> <853BD56A-3DDF-448B-8D02-B00AA593E3C4@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <8bc092095a8eb20bac335408b3423d3e.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> <93F9BE3C-D6FF-4D65-8769-16450204099D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <78c525fb524498ccdcb4113e2d58304d.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> <035fe144ae92123031ae61b9f7ef80ab.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs53 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Q8vci+r5a=K4j6vnSfsW5ow"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 422760e1-f67a-418f-bd8e-61e59b4fd050 X-Archives-Hash: e78bb53907f7ecf154660ac9d98c04d8 --Sig_/Q8vci+r5a=K4j6vnSfsW5ow Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jes=FAs Guerrero wrote: > Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more > complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten > it unless you take features off from bash. It's a very powerful > shell. >=20 > Same goes for my other example: fvwm. And for mplayer/mencoder. The problem is that man pages are single pages and therefore only suitable for fairly short documents. The alternative, as used by zsh, is to split the information into several man pages, then you never know which one to look at. procmail is a good example of how to do this badly, with procmailrc's documentation being split across three man pages. That's why info is a much better format for complex or multipurpose programs. You'd expect to find a list of contents, chapters and an index in a printed reference book, electronic documentation should be no different. --=20 Neil Bothwick The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up. --Sig_/Q8vci+r5a=K4j6vnSfsW5ow Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmL+xMACgkQum4al0N1GQMlpgCfeEST654YKsaqwIHNI5l4ZF3L fPgAoK0RBeTOmatfdVcxtFil8NbgLsPU =EUTN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Q8vci+r5a=K4j6vnSfsW5ow--