On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:07 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "MS" == Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > MS> File a bug? info and man really ought to return the same > MS> information. > > This would be abnormal for most, perhaps all, of the GNU utilities. > The manpages all contain only short summaries of options and refer to > the info pages for complete documentation. The ls manpage doesn't > even begin to discuss the output format. It's not merely missing > mention of this additional dot. I actually though that might be the case. I don't think I'll bother after all. > If you want to open a discussion of whether these abbreviated manpages > are problematic, feel free, but this isn't an isolated property of the > ls manpage. I imagine this discussion has been had repeatedly in > various other fora in any case. As an old-school Unix hand I'm a firm believer on 'man' as the reference point for documentation, but I think I'm swimming against the tide. For example KDE has virtually no man docs (and precious few other docs). This is bad and it's going to get worse. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
