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Re: [PATCH] ld.1
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld.1
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:53:18 -0800
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: The NUXI BSD group
- References: <200011262013.MAA16953@elmo.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 12:13:00PM -0800, Nick Clifton wrote:
> : Also, does the complete _583_ line copyright really need to be
> : printed out when viewing the manpage??? For as.1, the content is
> : only _207_ lines. Why isn't the copyright in the manpage as a
> : comment suffient? This change really, really clutters up the man
> : pages, especially when wanting to view what is normally at the
> : bottom of the man page such as "SEE ALSO" sections, etc..
>
> Not being a big 'man' user I so not know how problematic this is.
:-) Well formatted and pleasing manpages are very important to FreeBSD.
> Can't you just ignore the extra text ? Or filter it out ?
I guess I could comment it out when I import the manpages, but will
someone then come to me complaining I touched a copyright message and I
don't have the right to do so?
> I generally subscribe to the theory that it is better to provide too
> much information rather than too little, hence the inclusion of the
> full text. How is this problem handled in other situations ?
All the FSF GNU binaries only print a subset of the copyright and license
message. Gawk's is 15 lines long, gas and ld's 3 lines, GCC doesn't
print anything,
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)