The Online help question i asked and the debconf thread from a couple
of weeks ago seem to point in the same direction.
That is, we have nearly 1000 people working towards a hopefully common
goal. They're all volunteers, and everybody understands that. Nobody
(well, very few people) wa
niquely qualified :-) to suggest some kind of
> > standardization for online help be implemented in policy for console
> > programs.
> >
>
> This goes well beyond Debian's means. Enforcing this means a patch to every
> upstream who does not support --help (and remember tw
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:10:33AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 28-Dec-2001 Chris Tillman wrote:
> > That makes me uniquely qualified :-) to suggest some kind of
> > standardization for online help be implemented in policy for console
> > programs.
> s
On 28-Dec-2001 Chris Tillman wrote:
> First, a caveat: I'm not a dd, and have only been involved with Debian
> and Linux for around 8 months.
>
> That makes me uniquely qualified :-) to suggest some kind of
> standardization for online help be implemented in policy fo
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:00:51AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> However, some commands don't respond to this, others act as if the
> --help was not present and do their function anyway. That violates the
> don't-surprise-your-user software quality guideline, when so many
> packages conform to the
First, a caveat: I'm not a dd, and have only been involved with Debian
and Linux for around 8 months.
That makes me uniquely qualified :-) to suggest some kind of
standardization for online help be implemented in policy for console
programs.
I've grown accustomed to typing --help fir
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