Re: [PATCH 2/9] ldconfig.8: Fix style nits

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Branden,

On 1/5/23 13:35, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At 2023-01-05T13:03:01+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> On 1/4/23 21:04, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>>> Official GNU resistance to man pages is broad and deep, but not
>>> universal.
>>
>> Is there still resistance apart from written?
> 
> This is hard to me to judge, but I also interpret unorthodox man page
> typography as constitutive of resistance.  I credit Albert Cahalan with
> giving me a formative experience in reading a man page that was written
> with resentment.[1]

Heh!  That one definitely counts as resistance.

>  Countless thousands of Debian ps(1) page readers,
> often under stress trying to figure out how to identify and kill a rogue
> process, attempted self-help and found themselves served a dinner plate
> of steaming documentary hostility, innocent bystanders caught up in a
> pointless vendetta against a text formatting language.

Thew current page is better, but the command is so huge that I'll die before 
knowing how to use it more than the couple of options I normally use.

> 
> When Mr. Cahalan passes, I hope his family has the funds to engrave the
> first comment block from his ps(1) rewrite on his headstone.

It would be ironic if they indented anything in his headstone :)

> 
>> Most contributors to GNU today seem to use man pages.  There are still
>> a few projects, like make(1) which would be better with manual pages
>> documenting the language, but most have useful manual pages, don't
>> they?
> 
> GNU programs whose manuals have Invariant Sections or Cover Texts under
> the FDL tend also to lack freely-licensed man pages.
> 
> Fortunately groff doesn't have this problem, because it's all
> dual-licensed GPL.
> 
>> Maybe Debian helped get there.
> 
> I'd like to think so.  I was around when Debian still took a lot of crap
> for adopting that stance.  Now it has users who weren't born yet when
> that policy decision was made.
> 
> If you don't have further comments on v2 I'll make a few more changes to
> v3 and submit it.

Please submit it.  We'll see.

Cheers,

Alex

> 
> Regards,
> Branden
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/blob/7ac9a0e1f5606696dc799b773d5ec70183ca91a3/ps/ps.1

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