On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 06:14:16PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks (#39830) > > * Stalled. > > * Proposed on 20 Jun 1999 by Roland Rosenfeld; seconded by Chris > > Waters, Chris Lawrence and Raul Miller. > > * All programs are still required to provide manpages, but > > undocumented.7 is done away with by this proposal. > > I object to this; it provides useful information (i.e. there isn't a > manpage for this, but we know about it), at little cost in terms of > time&disk space.
Hmm, I guess it's re-hashing time :) The point of this proposal was that the presence of an "undocumented" manpage *doesn't* provide that information, it only pretends to. There is little correlation between "undocumented" links and "missing manpage" bugreports. Richard Braakman
