> > Date: 04 Jul 1999 12:26:55 +1000 > To: Roland Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org > From: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks > > Roland Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But this doesn't solve the other problem: dpkg -L shows these symlinks > > as real man pages. This is annoying at least for me... > > dpkg is not a documentation browser, it is a package manager. It really > doesn't matter if dpkg -L shows symlinks or not, that is not its purpose.
I would think there are uses for cat that weren't on the mind of the original author... I think it's a narrow viewpoint when someone limits what something can possibly do because of its originally stated purpose. If it doesn't break anything to mention that a man page is a link to undocumented, then why not? On the other hand, I would think one could alias dpkg -L as well, for a purely local solution. -Jim
