On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.) wrote:


Which then makes me wonder, why are many of the man pages maintained
seperately (in the man-pages package)?

Politics. On the one extreme, you have FSF purists who think everyone should use info, on the other you have debian-influenced "a man page for everything" people.

Info is occasionally hard, but when it works well it's really good. Man is often hard to navigate when it contains a lot of information, and both are often hampered by a lack of useful examples.

Ken
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