[ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Sat May 14 18:24:24 GMT 2022


On 2022-05-14 07:09, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 07/05/2022 19:52, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> I would like to offer to package the following projects for Cygwin.
>> They have been extensively tested on my own system for decades. ;^>
>> They are offered on the major distros listed below, and the cygport 
>> builds are available in my Google Drive folders.
>>
>> asr-manpages    20000406    alt.sysadmin.recovery manual pages
>>
>> A set of humorous manual pages developed on alt.sysadmin.recovery
>> (don't treat them seriously!). Some may be considered non-PC, NSFW, or
>> offensive. The authors recommend these man pages be installed on every
>> system.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> funny-manpages    2.3    humorous manual pages
>> A set of miscellaneous humorous manual pages (don't treat
>> them seriously!). Some may be considered non-PC, NSFW, or offensive.
>> You've been warned.
> 
> Just a question about the package naming: we already have 
> man-pages-{linux,posix} so is there any value in making these consistent?

On the contrary, we really do *NOT* want these confused with 
documentation, and only PLD Linux uses man-pages-funny, although Debian 
based distros package man-pages/-linux as manpages.

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