Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 18:29:26 -0700 From: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg question .... Message-ID: <20140806012926.GA98597@home.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <20140805225107.ccf9944a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <53E0D2B7.9060402@hiwaay.net> <20140805131910.GA72939@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53E0E281.9030306@hiwaay.net> <20140805225107.ccf9944a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 10:51:07PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 08:56:17 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > When I do an=20 > > 'apropos xfce', is says 'xfce: nothing appropriate' .... I did a=20 > > 'makewhatis -av' & still nothing .... surely there are some man pages ?= !?!?! >=20 > Please understand that "modern" software does not come with > manpages anymore. Documentation, _if_ it actually exists, is > scattered across the web. You'll find it in discussion forums, > blogs, user home pages, and wikis. Sometimes, there's something > in /usr/local/share, but don't bet your money on it... :-) >=20 I think Debian enforces a policy of including man pages in its packages. These would then get incorporated with at least some packages in Debian-based distributions of Linux, like Ubuntu and Mint Linux. So man pages might be among the documents to be found on the web. But I'll hesitate to suggest just how useful they might be for FreeBSD. --=20 David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT4YT1AAoJEBV64x4SNmArtsAP/2xC1CU31JIJBN/+V0S5UgHP Bom1VWrRGdenFQG/p+jNgNEcFA3J2GIXJsv55aalGV/B0YTH611W3GcAL5pXFEvF IzSUCK+5Yy80K+4YwJf3D9EqqhQ9MFqfu21DxqbUT9Tmj+1boH2J5fb8VJNGmo73 5+s9e+scTXOrq73AKQ5sQO3ITuD1/nVskzinLElT56pJf4K6JDIp1yBljV2q7Yhs xjKVkeS1ZRvKzTIgCmeNd5kPCivJK5e4iPVuqIgBIlOKYwo+31bMGrlAJAi7K6Is rUoKa8LuyDNQc+4ofLYQX+VYgYHbvfdQWe6HkncXxVKhIyDUFM6AVUOA5I8ao4ER FKfem8LisxOt+ccNtKWB/JMwGpQNohDJVSPe5Pd5koJZbC1PT3ToMsEMKIIH9ric CUeJv1huiS1ZW+P4Lx1DplSgnwBx03/yyV4K/LEMNTn4ZKUAbXqTFMzSF4jsbcRd N01O0qS8N5Hc/xjDNJTqHpG9ArAr4X+hC8y7jDI1dKC5iQhsTXqpik0AlAM3WxsT h4wzSgNUlB97sx8gQmXuD6ERB/n9JAsF14y4c0ukny3qCXCDDzC13BVBqLKu+eWa KzXfnP/cChIjkmbulfdTpgelZP6r6uo7KNOy76EYKzKfDRguwx753BdOOKTRJ0Lu cnznlGwa+i4pvicyg+2u =gKu+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--
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