Alain PORTAL wrote:
Unless I hear some good objections these pages are likely to disappear from man-pages in the next few weeks.
I have objections Michael, sorry ;-) Of course, these man pages are really to old! There is only one reason its are old, noboby maintiends its...
And I'll say like Andries said: "I like man pages and I hate info pages"....
I have two reasons:
- man pages are really easy to use, not info pages...
- man pages are translatable! Not info pages!!!!!
Everybody have to speak english to be able to use Linux? Fuck!!!! Windows is translated ! Many people want to use Linux and aren't able to speak or read english. What about translators? I'm the french man pages maintener, I maintend as soon is possible for me the french man pages translation. What about us? GNU want to kill us? GNU don't care about translators? Is english the universal language? No! French is the universal diplomatic langage!!! So, let us be able to translate help or documentation. And GNU info page are untranslatable! Unfortunately... Is the GNU project acting than an owner project?
I have to say you that now, I hate the GNU project because it act like a owner project.... Only english? Fuck you!!!! Don't forget Linus isn't an english man
Michael, we have to find mainteners who accept to release man pages against the info pages...
As long as they're old and unmaintained, they're useless.
If you can, start a gnu-manpages package that automatically converts commonly used GNU info pages into manpages. Do this automatically, so that the pages are maintained. They can then be a source for translations.
Speaking of translations, it should be no problem for translated manpages packages (such as manpages-fr) to include section 1 manpages, even if they are not included in man-pages but only in the proper source packages from the GNU project.
Michael, are you sure you can't find mainteners for these man pages?
What about you?
Regards,
Joey