On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:27:54AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>There seems to be two separate questions here:
>
>* Whether other packages should depend on having help2man installed.
>
>* Whether we should encourage people to install help2man.
>
>I think we should avoid the former, [...]
Agreed. Distributions should contain pre-generated pages rather than
building them on the target machine (which then additionally creates a
dependency for perl).
I have just put up a new version which includes a short texinfo document
(very much a work in progress) with some preliminary suggestions about
usage in Makefiles.
Note: this doc may need assignment papers...
>[...] but we certainly should do the latter.
Regards,
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