On Friday 06 February 2009 04:45:04 Stroller wrote: > On 5 Feb 2009, at 23:12, Joshua D Doll wrote: > > ... Also man pages lacking valuable information is the reason why > > GNU has switched to the majority of their packages to using info! > > I suspect the reason for this is far more about navigation then > contents. GNU can rewrite all their man pages if they don't like the > content, but `man` does not offer the facilities to hyperlink sections > that `info` does.
I suspect it has more to do with RMS's liking for micro-managing things, for changing everything he can get his hands on, and also a great big dose of "Not Invented Here" syndrome. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
