Feature proposal: New, Standard Documentation System
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu Nov 27 09:32:26 UTC 2008
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:28:55PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Far too often I find myself looking for non-existent man pages, Google
> results, or help menus in GNU/Linux software. What's the problem? There
> is no single, reliable, standardized documentation system that is
> universally accepted or appreciated. Yes, what I'm about to describe
> should obsolete man, info, and all the other dozen "help" documentation
> found in all the Fedora packages.
Debian forces all programs to come with a man page. If one is
missing, this is considered a bug and packagers have to write one.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html
This would be an excellent idea for Fedora to follow (and we can,
license permitting, use the Debian man pages).
Rich.
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