Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Mathieu Lirzin Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Installation of PDF/PS/DVI and HTML files Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:10:29 +0100 Lines: 25 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87lh9bu6w2.fsf@gnu.org> <20151203151351.GT27325@eeg.ccf.org> <87io4etw74.fsf@gnu.org> <5661BF37.1030107@tlinx.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1449252655 30838 208.118.235.17 (4 Dec 2015 18:10:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: 806945@debbugs.debian.org.tlinx.org, Greg Wooledge , bug-bash@gnu.org, Maria Valentina Marin To: Linda Walsh Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <5661BF37.1030107@tlinx.org> (Linda Walsh's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2015 08:28:39 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11947 Hi, Linda Walsh writes: > Mathieu Lirzin wrote: >> Greg Wooledge writes: >>> The de facto standard for "make" followed "make install" on a >>> _Unix_-like system is to install man pages. >> >> For more _GNU_ standards ....[_emphasis_ mine] > --- > Notice you are comparing 'GNU' (new) standards compared to > older and established standards. Many of the newer standards fly in > the face of good design and throw-out previous 'best-practices' standards > for no other reason than to follow new standards that are not justifiable > based on user-utility nor sound computer science. The GNU standards were mentioned only because Bash is a GNU package. I wasn't implying that they are higher standards or anything like that. I was just reminding that within the GNU project, an info manual is mandatory and man pages are only optional (not the other way). -- Mathieu Lirzin