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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:28:49
Message-Id: m3tyror6z3.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass by Michael Higgins
1 >>>>> "MH" == Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.org> writes:
2
3 MH> Yep. Why have a man page for a perl module? OTOH, if there is something
4 MH> that goes in /usr/bin, it should get a man page if there is one. But
5 MH> not for the modules themselves -- that's not needed at all.
6
7 Because man(1) works better than the alternatives; it is the unix way;
8 it is the first thing one types when searching for documentation.
9
10 The idea that the man pages are somehow uneeded is incomprehensible.
11
12 -JimC
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[gentoo-dev] Re: perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>