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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] find command reloaded
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:42:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <71e2849ded18ba555203d988785a636e@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d01001230702t1daeb0ddqd619e09181d1a997@mail.gmail.com>

> Another problem with stuff in contrib is, that their software is not
> well documented (i.e. no man pages), so that one probably has to read
> the source in order to be able to use it. This often forms an obstacle
> for usage... Being accepted to the main tree brings along good
> documentation, too, which is of importance to me.

i think you'll get further talking to the author of various packages
than inaccurately tarring everyone with the same brush.

i've been writing man pages, and i'm clearly not the only one:

minooka; 9fs sources ; cd /n/sources/contrib
minooka; find -f */root/sys/man | wc
    564     564   20926

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-23 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-22 17:29 Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 17:36 ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 17:44   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:15     ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 18:20       ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 18:59         ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:40       ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:52         ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 17:41 ` maht
2010-01-22 18:00   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 17:44 ` Robert Raschke
2010-01-22 17:59   ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:08     ` Corey Thomasson
2010-01-22 18:12       ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-01-22 18:19       ` Joseph Xu
2010-01-22 18:26         ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 18:29         ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:42           ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 19:00             ` geoff
2010-01-22 19:37             ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 19:45               ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 20:16                 ` Jason Catena
2010-01-22 20:26                   ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 20:23                 ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 20:31                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 20:57                     ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 20:38                   ` ron minnich
2010-01-22 21:07                     ` Steve Simon
2010-01-22 21:18                       ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-22 21:11                     ` John Stalker
2010-01-22 21:54                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-22 22:08                       ` John Stalker
2010-01-23  6:04                         ` lucio
2010-01-23 10:16                           ` John Stalker
2010-01-23 15:02                             ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-23 15:24                               ` Steve Simon
2010-01-23 15:44                                 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-24 18:05                                 ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-24 19:46                                   ` David Leimbach
2010-01-23 15:42                               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-01-23 15:52                                 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-03 17:58                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-03 18:23                         ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-03 18:28                         ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-03 18:40                           ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-01-22 18:13     ` Jason Catena
2010-01-22 19:17 ` John Stalker

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