Should we remove those man pages from CVS?

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Jun 25 11:57:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:53:35AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:29:14PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > : Is anyone working on making the manpage generating script better to get
> > : the same quality of manpage formatting as before?
> > 
> > I do not know of anyone doing this.
> 
> Can we go back to the real manpages then?  Good manpages are important to
> BSD, and I do not think the conversion script is ready for prime time.
> I know the GNU project despises manpages, but they are a fact of UNIX life.

I like the generated man pages. I don't have to add the same doc in
2 different places with 2 different formats. If you don't like them,
you are more than welcome to submit patches to impove them.


H.J.



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