Frankly I prefer "man" because it is concise and to the point. Yes, we
need extended documentation, but often it's a major pain to dig through
"info" and "/usr/doc" pages to find the information you're looking for.
Everytime I run into a (mostly) empty man that points me to these I just
lapse into a state of depression because I know I'll be fighting to find
what I'm after (I really wish they'd put even the most basic man page
with just the command line options if nothing else). Yes, incidentally,
HTML documentation is great (prefered by me over other non-man choices)
but I find it generally too slow to work with when I "just want the
facts mam".
I'd probably live with just about anything as long as it's consistent,
but everyone has their idea of what the perfect choice is and wants to
reinvent the wheel. One of the things I don't like Open Source is
everyone thinks "they know better" and ultimately we end up with the
software equivalent of the Tower of Babel. "man", though not perfect,
would work pretty damn well if everyone would just settle on it and keep
the pages up to date.
- Matt
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