On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:14:50AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > There is a proposal under consideration for changing the > undocumented(7) man page. The current proposal is included below; it > is not yet the final form; and input of the general community is > solicited. I have brought this modification to the notice of the full > developer list since I think that this may impact a number of people, > including users, whose views should be taken into account. > > 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. > > In any case, please follow up to the address given.
When declaring a comment period, it is customary to announce when it will end. How long do you propose to wait before declaring this proposal non-objectionable? So far I haven't seen any complaints that wouldn't be addressed by Colin Watson's planned update to the man-db package. -- G. Branden Robinson | The basic test of freedom is Debian GNU/Linux | perhaps less in what we are free to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | do than in what we are free not to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | do. -- Eric Hoffer
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