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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? | ||
| Date: | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:57:56 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20090206085751.5c53e745@krikkit | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? by Alan McKinnon |
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| 1 | On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:46:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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| 3 | > Man pages are mostly written as reference documents. Like technical |
| 4 | > specs, they tend to list the capabilities of the app without giving the |
| 5 | > "bigger picture overview" as that is assumed to be known. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | That's right,they tend to assume that you already know what you want |
| 8 | to do and are just a means of finding the syntax to do it. The problem is |
| 9 | that for most software, they are the only documentation provided. |
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| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Neil Bothwick |
| 14 | |
| 15 | EMail - garbage at the speed of light. |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |