On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Mark Krenz wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 09:35:29AM GMT, Sergey Poznyakoff [[email protected]]
said the following:
No, and there are no plans of doing so either. Tar is fully documented
in texinfo format. The manual is included in the distribution. Apart
from that, it is available online in various formats at
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual. Given all that, I see no reason
in any additional man pages.
You make it sound like man pages are going away.
if GNU has anything to do with it, then yes. GNU devs tend to abhor
them (according to the gentoo tar man page).
i love the detailed-ness of the tar manual -- but i only look at it
online. i abhor info, and generally love man pages. mplayer is a man
page i hate, and "info mplayer" just gives the man page. imo, if
something is complicated enough, it should have a detailed info/web
manual and a simplified man page. otherwise, a man page suffices.
and perhaps people other than tar devs have better editorial skills at
determining what doesn't need to be in a simplified man page, as sergey
might feel it's all quite important.
-ashley
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