[2010-02-27 20:06] Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> > > I think it is a waste of time to write manual pages that won't be > maintained upstream, and that won't contain more useful information than > --help. The purpose of a manual page is to document precisely the > behavior of a program, and for GUI applications there is usually an > associated GUI documentation instead.
Man pages have one more important advantage: Every command has one. Do not underestimate this. On Debian systems, people know, if they want to find out how to run a command and what command line options it has, they look in its man page, cause every command has one. If some graphical programs would not provide one, the the user would first try to look in the man page and if it does not exist, he needs to try --help (maybe he even needs to look for additional documentation which would be application specific). In my eyes, the largest advantage of man pages is that every command has one. meillo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1nltwh-4mp...@serveme
