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On 5 Feb 2009, at 23:12, Joshua D Doll wrote:
> ... Also man pages lacking valuable information is the reason why  
> GNU has switched to the majority of their packages to using info!

I suspect the reason for this is far more about navigation then  
contents. GNU can rewrite all their man pages if they don't like the  
content, but `man` does not offer the facilities to hyperlink sections  
that `info` does.

Stroller.