Opened 21 years ago

Closed 21 years ago

Last modified 21 years ago

#514 closed defect (wontfix)

Install OpenBSD Man pages?

Reported by: gerard@… Owned by: lfs-book@…
Priority: lowest Milestone:
Component: Book Version: CVS
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

We can look into this option, see thread on lfs-dev for further information.

It's not in the mailinglist archives yet, so here's some info until the URL is available:

Subject "man pages" posted April 02, 2003 by Sam Halliday

Change History (2)

comment:2 by greg@…, 21 years ago

bug_file_loc: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2003-May/033945.html
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

New URL added.

This is not a great idea and I don't see folks rushing in to start a new project. I dl'd the pkg and took a peek. There is all sorts of stuff in there, and not all appropriate. Plenty of BSD specific stuff. Grepping for "GNU" wasn't particularly enlightening. In short, there is not much value here.

We all agree that man pages suck. We all agree that GNU prefers info to man pages. We currently use Linux man pages maintained by Andries E. Brouwer (aeb@…). If anything was to happen, then the someone could look at the openbsd pages and start sending patches to AEB, but quite frankly, I feel this is not for LFS to undertake. We don't have the time, nor the man-power, nor the expertise.

Closing.

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