man pages

Gary L. Greene Jr. greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Fri May 26 20:43:06 PDT 2006


On Friday 26 May 2006 07:12 pm, Vincent Danen wrote:
> The manpages are currently extremely debian-centric and a lot of the
> options that would be pertinent to apt-rpm are missing, the like the "-o
> rpm::rootdir=" option.
>
> Are there any plans to clean these manpages up?  It seems to me, based
> on some conversation that I've watched, that apt-rpm is sufficiently
> diverged from debian's apt to warrant a manpage overhaul.
>
> Thoughts?  Note, I'm not asking the developers to do it... =)  I'd be
> more than willing to put some time into the effort as well (it's
> important to me to have accurate manpages, especially if I look at
> replacing urpmi with apt).

Since I recently got manedit into the PhoeNUX, I might be able to find a few 
folks that'd be interested in helping with the man page overhaul too.



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