> Another problem with stuff in contrib is, that their software is not
> well documented (i.e. no man pages), so that one probably has to read
> the source in order to be able to use it. This often forms an obstacle
> for usage... Being accepted to the main tree brings along good
> documentation, too, which is of importance to me.
i think you'll get further talking to the author of various packages
than inaccurately tarring everyone with the same brush.
i've been writing man pages, and i'm clearly not the only one:
minooka; 9fs sources ; cd /n/sources/contrib
minooka; find -f */root/sys/man | wc
564 564 20926
- erik
