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 keyword 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 keyword'.
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
The best would be if man keyword 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 keyword'.
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 with the others.
What
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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This doesn't show the package description!
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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
Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ?
No if you are a power user, otherwise yes. Beside not everbody has
apt-cache installed.
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To show the description of one package use this command:
dpkg -p package
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Henrique
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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:
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
* 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
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
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 package?
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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 pages in
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