Jari Aalto wrote:
The following path arranges sections PACKAGE FORMAT NOTES, OPTIONS,
ENVIRONMENT
in alphabetical order. Cf GNU cp(1), mv(1), OpenBSD ssh(1) etc.
Alien's man page is generally ordered by typical use patterns (for
Debian systems anyway). I don't feel that alphabetical order
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes:
Jari Aalto wrote:
The following path arranges sections PACKAGE FORMAT NOTES, OPTIONS,
ENVIRONMENT
in alphabetical order. Cf GNU cp(1), mv(1), OpenBSD ssh(1) etc.
Alien's man page is generally ordered by typical use patterns (for
Debian systems anyway).
Jari Aalto wrote:
The alphabetical order is what is preferrable. It helps locating
opptions much faster when the direction of search is predictable. Like
when seen in scripts and web pages, forum posts.
I think that most people who are searching for something in a man page,
as opposed to
Package: alien
Version: 8.78
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The following path arranges sections PACKAGE FORMAT NOTES, OPTIONS, ENVIRONMENT
in alphabetical order. Cf GNU cp(1), mv(1), OpenBSD ssh(1) etc.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy:
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