Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
Hi,
Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:08:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Given that the GCS suggests installing only the Info version of the
manual by default (info "(standards) Standard Targets")
What do you think?
I think that's a stupid suggestion.
It would be nice to express your ideas in a polite way. The point was
about achieving a reproducible build, not about droping the man page.
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Nevertheless, Gnu and others have made similarly well-suggested
ideas regarding unix utils and architecture as to possibly leave some
people a bit short on patience.
The de facto standard for "make" followed "make install" on a
_Unix_-like system is to install man pages.
For more _GNU_ standards ....[_emphasis_ mine]
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Notice you are comparing 'GNU' (new) standards compared to
older and established standards. Many of the newer standards fly in
the face of good design and throw-out previous 'best-practices' standards
for no other reason than to follow new standards that are not justifiable
based on user-utility nor sound computer science.
L. Walsh
