Manpages are important

Posted Mar 18, 2025 23:44 UTC (Tue) by PeeWee (guest, #175777)
In reply to: Manpages are important by fraetor
Parent article: Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

Or maybe it's a good thing to keep the GNU manpages in place? If anything does not work as described in those, it's a bug and needs to be fixed. And once there are no more such bugs, one could just start with a copy of the GNU manpages, but I guess that may raise some licensing issues. OTOH, how many ways are there to describe well defined behaviour in a user friendly form?

Manpages are important

Posted Mar 18, 2025 23:48 UTC (Tue) by interalia (subscriber, #26615) [Link]

Well during the testing phase, the GNU manpages should still be installed, but renamed like the binaries were. But if I was running the experiment I would want "man ls" to show the manual page for uutils ls, with the GNU manpage prefixed as "man coreutils-ls" or something similar.

Manpages are important

Posted Mar 27, 2025 23:49 UTC (Thu) by raindog308 (guest, #176490) [Link]

manpages?

“See the info page for more details.”