Re: [Bug-tar] tar auto detect compression

[ashley willis]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Mark Krenz wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 09:35:29AM GMT, Sergey Poznyakoff address@hidden said 
> the following:
> > No, and there are no plans of doing so either. Tar is fully documented
> > in texinfo format. The manual is included in the distribution. Apart
> > from that, it is available online in various formats at
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual. Given all that, I see no reason
> > in any additional man pages.
>
>  You make it sound like man pages are going away.

if GNU has anything to do with it, then yes. GNU devs tend to abhor 
them (according to the gentoo tar man page).

i love the detailed-ness of the tar manual -- but i only look at it 
online. i abhor info, and generally love man pages. mplayer is a man 
page i hate, and "info mplayer" just gives the man page. imo, if 
something is complicated enough, it should have a detailed info/web 
manual and a simplified man page. otherwise, a man page suffices.

and perhaps people other than tar devs have better editorial skills at 
determining what doesn't need to be in a simplified man page, as sergey 
might feel it's all quite important.

-ashley
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