Did you check if you could install some of the missing man/manuals you care about? Not all man pages are selected for default install.
on my opensuse 42.3: installed: sudo zypper search man | awk '$1 !~ /^i/ && $2 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print} $1 ~ /^i/ && $3 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print}' | grep -c '^i' 1 not-installed: sudo zypper search man | awk '$1 !~ /^i/ && $2 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print} $1 ~ /^i/ && $3 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print}' | grep -cv '^i' 47 I looked for the sl utility - no joy finding it, SAD! no xsnow either, SAD! found xeyes, huraaahhh! Tomas On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 15:50 -0700, logical american wrote: > A brief question on sparse linux documentation for executable > programs > > I did a survey of the 15,000+ executables on my openSuse Leap v42.3 > OS > which has about 8869 software packages loaded according to zypper, > but > 76% of them have no man page at all. I did find dozens of programs > running, such as gvfs, which are intrinsic to the OS and some > apparently > embedded in the kernal, most running under systemctl control, but > with > no documentation. > > For openSuse Leap v42.3, it appears that the linux developers just > want > the product out the door and have not documented the /etc folder very > well. > > Should we be concerned that 3/4 of the programs running on a linux OS > do > not have a man page? > > I was a bit surprised to find this rather high ratio. Is it > surprising? > > Randall > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug