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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:43:23 -0500 Michael Cummings |
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<mcummings@g.o> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > man pages can't be considered optional (despite what RMS says). |
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| > They're |
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| > not fancy extra HTML API documentation, they're core, so they don't |
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| > get a USE flag. |
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| (not advocating a USE flag bug...) what about when the man pages are |
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| a duplication of the native documentation? perl module build process |
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| can generate man pages - but it is all a duplication of what you get |
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| from running perldoc instead. |
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Perl is of course speshul. perldoc is a man replacement which still |
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operates correctly in a basic command-line environment. Plus, doesn't |
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perldoc come with perl no matter what? |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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