Package: exim4 Version: 4.50-8 Severity: normal The exim4 man page doesn't say which command-line options are the most important.
The options are listed in alphabetical order, so I don't know in which order to read them to start learning about exim. This is especially frustrating since there are so many options and they all seem to refer to each other. Furthermore, if I want to find documentation on a particular option, I will use the text search functionality of my pager to search for it, and I think most other users will do the same. Therefore the most common reason for listing items in alphabetical order, namely so that readers of paper literature can use a binary search to find a particular item, doesn't apply here. Whereas if the options would be described in order of importance, then that would provide a natural progression in which people could learn about the command. And even if it were necessary to print the manual page on paper at some point, I think it would still be better to have a pedagogical ordering of the options, and to just include an alphabetized index at the end of the document. So that leaves me wondering why it was decided to list the command line options in alphabetical order in the manual page. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.50 #1 built 27-May-2005 08:08:19 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003) Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages exim4 depends on: ii exim4-base 4.50-8 support files for all exim MTA (v4 ii exim4-daemon-light 4.50-8 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon exim4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
