perldoc and perl-doc

From	Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject	perldoc and perl-doc
Date	2013-07-02 11:17 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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>>>>> Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> writes:
>>>>> Quoth "Dave Saville" <dave@invalid.invalid>:
>>>>> On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:13:25 UTC, Mart van de Wege wrote:

[...]

 >>> And perldoc is a bit of a red herring. Debian users know that
 >>> Debian doesn't package docs by default and will see it is a
 >>> 'Suggested' package, so they can install it when needed.

 > This subthread started with a Debian user who didn't know that.

	Even though I think I've clarified this thing up in [1], I'd
	like to reiterate it once more: I knew about the perl-doc
	package since well before this discussion, and it was indeed the
	first package for me to look for "command-line perldoc."

	My point was that I never used the latter, and I feel no loss of
	that, or an urge to start using it, like, now.

[1] news:877ghe786a.fsf@violet.siamics.net

[...]

PS.  And should anyone ask my advice about reading Perl documentation,
	it's highly unlikely that perldoc(1) would come to my mind as
	something deserving a mention.

-- 
FSF associate member #7257

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