A bit premature [LWN.net]

A bit premature

Posted Mar 30, 2008 21:40 UTC (Sun) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
In reply to: A bit premature by landley
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils

>> This is a far cry from a replacement for GNU ld which links dozens of
>> processors' code in at least a half dozen different file formats.

>1) Isn't the unix way "do one thing and do it well"?

Yes, but remember, GNU's Not Unix.  While it's often an improvement, it does have some
idiosyncrasies that drive me crazy (like the insistance on having man pages that basically say
'see the info document', for example).

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A bit premature

Posted Mar 31, 2008 0:12 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Er, most GNU software has had better manpages than that for many years 
(derived automatically from the texinfo, just as the info is).