Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:27:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, DaleCo Help Desk <daleco@daleco.biz>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manual title standards (was: man 1 eject) Message-ID: <20021106012705.GE676@gray.sea.gr> In-Reply-To: <ivu1ivpw5z.1iv_-_@localhost.localdomain> References: <20021104183704.C39772@welearn.com.au> <20021105020032.I87446-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20021105141249.GH573@gray.sea.gr> <050201c284e3$1b3f4890$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> <ivu1ivpw5z.1iv_-_@localhost.localdomain>
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On 2002-11-05 13:02, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> wrote: > "DaleCo Help Desk" <daleco@daleco.biz> writes: > > Peter, what in the *header* of your eject manpage? Generally, > > FBSD's own manpages show up with "FreeBSD System Manager's > > Manual", or "FreeBSD General Commands Manual", etc., etc. > [...] > There is apparently no standard on what the title should be. There are > non-FreeBSD parts (eg, named(8)) of the base OS which use the default > title. There are ports (eg, eject(1) and portupgrade(1)) which do the > same. Most of the ports I looked at have no middle portion. A few have > silly things like "FSF" (grub(8)). Some seem to be in parts of their > manual like "Ruby Programmers Reference Manual" (ruby(1)). It's probably a hell of a maintenance load to patch all those ports and keep them updated. Even for manpages that are part of the base system the developers are cautious to avoid committing changes that are trivial and will cause conflicts in later imports of the source from the vendor's releases :/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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