Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:18:07 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: missing man pages Message-ID: <CAHHBGkowe3LtCrncHMUfC9GDUwPfnXXgT0UaKLqb=dSdh21cQA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43930.1398634658@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <43930.1398634658@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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On 27 April 2014 17:37, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > I just now noticed a few processes running (via ps -ax) that don't > appear to have associated man pages: > > gconfd-2 > polkitd > console-kit-daemon > hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: > hald-runner > > > Does anyone other than me think that this is something that should be > rectified? > > Note that there does appear to exist a man page elsewhere for at least > one of the above: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkitd.8.html > > I have no idea why that didn't get installed on my FreeBSD (9.1) system. > It's up to a maddening combination of third-party developers (who may be prejudiced against useful tools like man(1)) and port maintainers (who may be confused, uncaring, jaded, or wrong) to provide the man pages for third-party applications. It used to be that debian did man pages for a lot of things that (misguided) linux kids didn't want to document well (info(1) is such a lame attempt, guys. Stop already), but you'd have to count on the maintainer to pull those in. For stuff from the ports tree, I'd suggest a polite question to the maintainer before you fire off a PR: there may be good reasons they don't come with decent documentation. You can also do the tedious: % pkg which /path/to/offending file % pkg info -R resulting_pkg_name | grep /usr/local/man or some equivalent nonsense. Maybe it will give you something, but don't count on it. Fr'instance, the obnoxious devel/dbus installs no man pages, so you have to guess at its true purpose. Maybe it makes hot- dogs, maybe it just e-mails the NSA when you utter profanities, maybe it does something else. Good luck! -- --
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