[gentoo-user] Re: No ping man page

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:

> <sigh> Code like this makes me want to vomit. The
> OS-that-shall-not-be-named pulls stunts like this, I really think FLOSS
> stuff should be better.
>
> So, I have to emerge an entire sgml kit to generate a man page. Wow.
> Especially since last time I looked, man pages were not in sgml format
> or even any format that vaguely resembles mark-up
>
> To the upstream iputils dev:
>
> "Dude, wtf were you thinking?"

Yup, it does seem way over the top.  Surely though there is some
rhyme to the reason.  Man pages are such a large part of the very
essence of unix.  It seems a serious shame that a user is better off
googling for `linux man ping' than the long standing `man ping'.  The
more so since someone needing the man page for ping is somewhat more
likely to be having network troubles than the average bear, and may
not be able to google.

I took Alans' comment as at root, friendly, and maybe the devs if any
read it will too.  But please any developer who can ... explain what
is the reasoning here.

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