[Yum-devel] [PATCH] yum-utils

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Jan 11 08:17:57 UTC 2006


On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> I'd rather see proper manual pages written for the utilities than trying 
> to figure out clever ways of dumping optparse output to manual pages 
> since that doesn't really add any information, most likely it's just 
> going to irk people similarly to the kind of manpages which say "For 
> full manual see info <foo>" and nothing else :)

Well.. actually, there would be nothing wrong with a script which turned 
optparse help into an *initial* manual page, that'd save some boring 
manual typing and then you could just fill in the meat like examples etc.

 	- Panu -



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