Bug ID 1213496
Summary Man pages and documentation in general missing
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Aeon
Version Current
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Distrobox
Assignee rbrown@suse.com
Reporter kjong+lists@neobits.nl
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
Target Milestone ---
Found By ---
Blocker ---

In Aeon the system is immutable and shouldn't be touched. However, there are no
man pages installed. This is not really user-friendly. But maybe it's on
purpose to make sure people don't touch their base install?

But even after doing `distrobox enter` and you download and enter the default
distrobox, which is `registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/distrobox:latest`, I still
don't get manual pages. This makes using the system harder than it should be.

What's the reasoning to not include documentation? On production
non-interactive containers I get why man pages are a waste of disk space. But
distrobox is meant to be used as a normal user environment. In such an
environment people expect to find man pages. Otherwise the system is in the way
of getting things done.

In contrast, Fedora Silverblue has the man pages installed in the base OS, but
also in their default toolbox image. Which to me makes perfect sense. Humans
are going to use those environment interactively. Googling/Ducking for man
pages online would be weird and the `--help` output isn't always complete or
fully helpful.

Can man pages be included in Aeon and in the toolbox containers?


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