Hello,
in general I like the idea of descriptions of manpages. I would like it
even more if it would regard i18n descriptions which are produced by
the ddtp server.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > The best would be if "man would bring up a list of man pages
> > with a choose facility when more than one page exists. Maybe this change
> > in behavior could be set through an environment variable.
>
> No need. Try 'man -a '.
>
>
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> The best would be if "man would bring up a list of man pages
> with a choose facility when more than one page exists. Maybe this change
> in behavior could be set through an environment variable.
No need. Try 'man -a '.
Also, when more
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > I've now choosen "7dsc" since packages aren't commands.
>
> How about something more descriptive than "dsc"? Say, "package",
> "pkg", or "deb" (in my order of preference)?
>
I'm also not very happy with "dsc" but I neither are wit
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> I've now choosen "7dsc" since packages aren't commands.
How about something more descriptive than "dsc"? Say, "package",
"pkg", or "deb" (in my order of preference)?
Andrew
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:52PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ?
> >
> No if you are a power user, otherwise yes. Beside not everbody has
> apt-cache installed.
I think most people do have apt installed.
$ dpkg -S `which apt-get` `which apt-cache`
apt: /usr/
> dpkg -s
>
> This doesn't show the package description!
>
> O. Wyss
To show the description of one package use this command:
dpkg -p
[]'s
Henrique
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> Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ?
>
No if you are a power user, otherwise yes. Beside not everbody has
apt-cache installed.
O. Wyss
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> > To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in
> > section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the config file.
> > I'd rather like to know which is a better place for it.
>
> Use a subsection. For instance, somepackage(1dsc) goes in
> $(mandir)/man1/somepa
> dpkg -s
>
This doesn't show the package description!
O. Wyss
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package
> description I wrote a script "dsc2man" which creates appropriate man
> pages for each package.
>
> To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pa
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package
> description I wrote a script "dsc2man" which creates appropriate man
> pages for each package.
Wouldn't it be easier to just use apt-cache show ?
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package
> description I wrote a script "dsc2man" which creates appropriate man
> pages for each package.
Apart from this being quite cool, you surely know that you can read
p
* Otto Wyss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package
> description I wrote a script "dsc2man" which creates appropriate man
> pages for each package.
>
> To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in
> section 6
Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package
description I wrote a script "dsc2man" which creates appropriate man
pages for each package.
To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in
section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the co
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