On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 06:58:37PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Aoife Moloney: > > > == Detailed Description == > > The split between `/bin` and `/sbin` is not useful, and also unused. > > Programs in /usr/bin have their documentation in section 1 of the > manual, while programs /usr/sbin are documented in section 8. (In > general, I deliberately used /usr/bin/ld.so although the manual page was > already called ld.so(8), without a program of this name existing.) > > When moving programs, should we move the manual pages as well? Or at > least add a link so that that section 1 references work? The manual sections have historical meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections eg. 1 = general commands 8 = system administration So unless the tools themselves are changing their purpose or are in the wrong section now, the manual sections should stay the same. Rich. > Is there something we can do to help developers on Fedora systems to > write portable code (not just shell scripts) after this change is rolled > out? > > Thanks, > Florian > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
