On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:24:26PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2018 10:09, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:45:20PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Add a new section to the top of the filesystem-specific chapter to point
> > > people generally to the filesystem-specific man pages. This way we can
> > > delete all the redundant subsections that say the same thing.
> >
> > Well, the subsections also provides the name of the package where is FS
> > specific man page :-)
> >
> > > -.SS "Mount options for xfs"
> > > -See the options section of the
> > > -.BR xfs (5)
> > > -man page (the xfsprogs package must be installed).
> >
> > It's probably not so important (and I have no strong opinion about
> > it), but I can imagine that for end-users it's useful. Maybe we can
> > add to the man page a small table with FS name, man page and package
> > name:
> >
> > xfs xfs(5) xfsprogs
> > ext4 ext4(5) e2fsprogs
> > cifs mount.cifs(8) cifs-utils
> > ...
> >
> > or is it overkill?
>
> the only reason i hesitated to try and do that was due to cross-distro
> package naming idiosyncrasies. but i guess if we refer to the upstream
Good point.
> project using the name they choose, the rest can be an exercise for the
> user ?
Let's ignore this for now. I think the description at the begin of the
section is good enough for now. We'll see :-)
Karel
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