Linda Walsh wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
Linda Walsh escribió:
In SuSE 11.1, the behavior of man seems to be "broken"
It is not broken, but different. simply follow Claes advice to get back the old behaviour.
---- Black is white and white is black...I know the drill...
So why shouldn't newly created users have had a export NEXPERT_VERBOSE=1
to their profiles, rather than changing the behavior for old users?
That is sorta what it is, isn't it? The suse proj/team is adding more user-friendly features for non-experts...which they want to default on for new users... Seems like 1 flag set for newly created users in the default template would do it.
Then older users could ask for that behavior by setting it in their profile or they'd retain the older 'brevity-first' behavior by default?
I do understand the desire and direction...but wish they'd do it in a way to default in changes for new users and 1 global to toggle off all of the newer 'help added' features....
Could be overridden with tool-by-tool switches, but when individual tool switch (i.e. MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT) isn't present, go with global .. and making the new switch "MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT makes it sound like a negative -- usually it removes added gnu functionality like added switches and such...but in this case, it's reverting to previous gnu behavior. Or...is this the new 'gnu' man trend as well?...(Ick!) (sigh)
My Linux machine is not doing Internet at the moment, but
I would like to comment: many users ( I would guess) of Linux OS's, are not used to UNIX systems, which Linux basically copies. MAN pages are not very helpful to those who are not in the IT business. (Perhaps even to them, as many of the inputs to this forum have shown.) Many of the books which are available for Linux seem to assume a familiarity with UNIX. It is time that the OS's contributors take a more friendly view of their possible users, and make the system more user-friendly. I hate to say, more Windows-like, but at least more DOS/CPM like. Well, flame me, I suppose, but I think this would be useful. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org