Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:12:33PM -0500, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2007 1:31 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We are talking about 6 KBytes of manpages, not 640 KBytes of complete
> > documentation. What use is it to have the programs if they are unusable
> > due to missing manpages?
>
> The program still works without the manpage present. How does it make
> it "unusable"

The unix philosophy is to have many small tools that bring a minimal
documentation (and in most cases the complete documentation) with them.
Your comparison is comparing apples with oranges btw:
a) a car doesn't have several hundred small "tools"
b) while the basic tools normally don't need documentation, trying to
   use one of the rarely used or more complex features without
   documentation either fails or takes much more time then necessary
   or leaves many features unused (think of speed control, navigation,
   radio).

    Ciao
        Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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