> > > has been useless more often than I liked... thanks to undocumented(1).
On Mon, 28.08.00 13:03 -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Wasn't there a policy proposal to get rid of these bogus pages? On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 07:50:29PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > ... to be replaced by what? The maintainers simply won't write > manpages en mass, so when deleting undocumented(1) many packages will > have binaries without manpage making it harder for newbies to find the > docs -> no benefit? To be replaced by nothing. [At least, until a proper man page is written.] The rationale was that the presence of the undocumented man page doesn't actually get rid of any bugs, yet it makes the system more cumbersome, and less pleasant to use. -- Raul
