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Date:      Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:13:37 +1000
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@andyit.com.au>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: devel/check
Message-ID:  <58A02741.4060305@andyit.com.au>
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On 12/02/2017 19:01, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> pkg has plenty of manpages all of which are specified in the "SEE 
> ALSO" section of pkg(8) which is a standardize section exactly made of 
> that. 

The man page for pkg(8) does not explicitly state that the sub-commands
to pkg <command> have their own man page.

SEE ALSO is not an indication that you should read those bits to find
out about flags for pkg(8) commands.

Just sayin..... I was gonna delete this bit, but might keep it:


For example:

% man 1 ls

"SEE ALSO ... xo_parse_args(3)..."  ??? why?

-andyf




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