On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:38:40AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > My apologies, > your question(s?) were unclear and obfuscated with false > assertions. > > Hopefully a "beginner" would start at the start, i.e.:- > help help > info info > man man
So you've never met a beginner and forgotten what it's like to be one? Thanks. > > You don't _type_ pam_umask. > > Do you believe you have psychic powers? You do type "pam_umask" alone at a command line? Why? > The answer to the question*s* you might have asked, and some of the > questions they may have raised if you'd followed the guide on how to ask > smart questions is:- > > Q. Why is there no man page for BASH built-ins? I don't need to ask this because I know the answer. In fact, I explicitly stated the answer in my message, making this utterly nonsensical. > Q. Does Debian policy require man pages for every package? > > A. No (it's recommended only) ... Fair enough. I misremembered. > NOTE: that built-in commands are *not* packages. Again, you are telling me something I wrote in the threadstarter as if it is somehow going to make me appear (or feel?) foolish. Not so much. > Q. But it confuses me that there is a man page for umask that is not the > BASH built-in, yet there is no man page for the BASH builtin umask. Why > is that? Again, I made it clear in the threadstarter that I did understand, but disagreed with the current arrangement. You may claim and I wrote unclearly, but you are seemingly alone in failing to understandwhat I wrote. It's almost as if you read unclearly. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141105051556.ga29...@panix.com
