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On Friday 06 February 2009 04:45:04 Stroller wrote: |
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> On 5 Feb 2009, at 23:12, Joshua D Doll wrote: |
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> > ... Also man pages lacking valuable information is the reason why |
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> > GNU has switched to the majority of their packages to using info! |
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> I suspect the reason for this is far more about navigation then |
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> contents. GNU can rewrite all their man pages if they don't like the |
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> content, but `man` does not offer the facilities to hyperlink sections |
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> that `info` does. |
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I suspect it has more to do with RMS's liking for micro-managing things, for |
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changing everything he can get his hands on, and also a great big dose |
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of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. |
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