On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:40:32AM +0200, Jarkko Santala wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Brueffer writes:
> > >now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i386)
> > >can be nuked as well, right?
> >
> > Right.
> 
> Although it might be considered dragging old baggage around, would it
> make sense to instead of zapping the man page completely write a new one
> that would at least give a clue on how things are done these days?
> 
> Otherwise unclued people might just think there's something wrong with
> their system because the man page is missing and get even more confused.
> 
>       -jake
> 

Well, people are supposed to read UPDATING before updating the system.
UPDATING already has an entry about this, so has the handbook, the
release notes etc.

I think we can't really help people that don't read the recommended
documentation.

- Christian

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