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From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] missing man pages (Was: [gentoo-user] Re: en_US.UTF-8 unknown?)
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:56:25
Message-Id: m3smtz1ufw.fsf_-_@lugabout.jhcloos.org
1 >>>>> "gabor" == gabor <gabor@××××.net> writes:
2
3 gabor> long answer:
4 gabor> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34923&highlight=%2Autf%2A+%2Aglibc%2A
5
6 gabor> short answer: do this as root: "localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8"
7
8 That link mentions that gentoo lacks a man page for localdef(1), not
9 to mention one for locale(7).
10
11 Other dists have these man pages. Debian in general requires a man
12 page for every command, et al.
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14 Gentoo should start a policy to also require man pages. Most of the
15 work is already done: grab the pages from the debs and/or rpms.
16 (More precisely from the sources for the debs and rpms.)
17
18 Clearly the licensing permits such cross-pollination. Take advantage
19 of it.
20
21 -JimC
22
23 P.S. Wierd! ispell -- even though as installed here is older than
24 gentoo -- recognized gentoo as spelled correctly, but did not
25 recognize debian.... Nor does it recognize redhat or suse. :-)
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