On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:02:37PM +0200, yayo wrote: > > Coreutils was not supposed to overwrite the man pages > previously installed by the man-pages pack, > but it seems to be just what's happened.. :P
No, all the later packages are free to install pages from man-pages. The pages from man-pages are in three groups: (a) documenting the linux-kernel, probably up to date (b) documenting basic posix stuff, so they are in man1p, man3p (c) other documentation - much of it based on old info pages and dating from the days when gnu maintainers would rather have used proprietary software than deviate from putting all the useful stuff in an info page. You still occasionally see a page that refers you to info for any useful details, but most gnu manpages now give you at least some indication of how to use a command before pointing you to info. So, because the documentation from the packages is likely to be up to date (but items in 'c' above are not), the later packages can update man-pages as they choose. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
