From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 01:40:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47CCDCAE for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 01:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 083362659 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 01:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-111-1.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.111.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10CAB24C42; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 03:40:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s761eR02001982; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 03:40:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 03:40:27 +0200 From: Polytropon To: David Benfell Subject: Re: pkg question .... Message-Id: <20140806034027.ced302b2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140806012926.GA98597@home.parts-unknown.org> References: <53E0D2B7.9060402@hiwaay.net> <20140805131910.GA72939@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53E0E281.9030306@hiwaay.net> <20140805225107.ccf9944a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140806012926.GA98597@home.parts-unknown.org> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:40:37 -0000 On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 18:29:26 -0700, David Benfell wrote: > I think Debian enforces a policy of including man pages in its > packages. These would then get incorporated with at least some > packages in Debian-based distributions of Linux, like Ubuntu and Mint > Linux. In some cases, "man something" just redirects you to "info something". And even excellent software like TSK has moved its documentation on-line, leaving just a sad reminder in /usr/local/share/doc... :-( This situation is especially annoying when you do not have Internet connection (e. g., in environments that enforce a very strict security policy, and you're happy about "man mencoder" providing the information you need). > So man pages might be among the documents to be found on the web. But > I'll hesitate to suggest just how useful they might be for FreeBSD. The more "OS dependent" they are, the less helpful they'll probably be. And it's not that manpages are exclusive to command line utilities. For example, there's "man opera", but no "man firefox". So it _is_ possible, but developers don't seem to be interested in devoting time to create actually useful manpages when they can leave that task to the users. :-) Writing a manpage technically isn't hard, but _really_ writing it... can be. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...