A "joke" in the glibc manual

does it? i am reading his quote differently:

> These guidelines as such do not apply to manuals. Kindness as a general principle surely does apply to manuals, but precisely how remains to be decided.

i read this as:
the guidelines do not apply to manuals because they were not written with manuals in mind. but then he explicitly states that kindness does apply, and it does so without depending on the guidelines to make it so. so the way i see it there is no exception to kindness for manuals. but rather that the new guidelines do not specify how that kindness is to be applied.

greetings, eMBee.