hi morel.
you wrote:
Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude.
i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if
i am wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn where it can be
obtained.
i am aware of various manpages and the html documentation for
aptitude, which i do have, and which are fine as far as they go. but
if (say) the html doc were converted to .info format, i would find it
more convenient to browse.
I do not like info at all: this is a software which pretends to help
you, but you have to learn how it works before being able to use it.
when i first read a unix man page twenty years ago, i had a rather
similar reaction. it took me an embarrassingly long time to screw in
the lightbulb and do 'man man'. (perhaps i am a closet homophobe.)
likewise, it was initially somewhat frustrating to learn how to use
info. iirc, most of the frustration was due to the absence of
/usr/share/info/info.info (or some analogous file) on the system i
used at the time. 'info info' just brought up a manpage in an
obnoxiously unfamiliar reader.
in other words, on that system, there was no .info info on info!
And, it's info manual is just useless.
i am not sure which document you refer to, here. info has a manpage,
which is indeed not terribly helpful to the novice. it is, after all,
a manpage, and manpages are not intended to be helpful to novices.
but there exists a much more extensive document in .info format
(namely info.info), geared toward the novice user, including a
tutorial that i personally found very helpful.
on a system with this latter document installed, 'info info' renders
it in the info reader.
unfortunately, in debian, afaik until one installs texinfo-doc-nonfree
from the non-free repositories, the files for this self-documentation
don't exist on the system, and 'info info' will merely render info's
manpage unto the unsuspecting newb.
cheers,
wes davidson
ps: please do not mistake my unhealthy interest in the info system for
some kind of pushy advocacy. i merely seek (perhaps unsuccessfully)
to clarify its accessibility.
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On 2013-01-27 in 'dselect fun', berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude. I do not like info
at all: this is a software which pretends to help you, but you have
to learn how it works before being able to use it. And, it's info
manual is just useless.
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