On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:40:21PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I personally find the undocumented (7) man page frustrating, > > since I expected to see documentation, and was told there was none > > after a wait (yes, I had a slow machine). I would have much rather > > not had my hopes raised, and that man itself told me there was no > > manual page. > > How about if we made this configurable: > > Move undocumented.7.gz to undocumented.real.7.gz > > Create a symlink from the former to the latter in the postinst upon > installation or upgrading from a version without it. Then people > who don't want to see it can simply delete the symlink. > > They would get a warning from man of course, but that should be easy > to special case in man(1).
I think dangling symlinks in place of man pages are bugs, and would greatly prefer not to special-case such things in man-db. One of the reasons I like this proposal is that it gets rid of the farm of dangling symlinks when the manpages package isn't installed. > Personally I think the manual page would be useful to users new > to Debian. Indeed, and I think that the manual page should stay and be referred to in other ways (e.g. in the "No manual entry for foo" message, as I suggested earlier). This proposal just removes the obligation to create the undocumented(7) symlinks. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
