apt: Manpages are useless

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed May 7 12:59:20 UTC 2008


Johanna Moshtar wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.43.3ubuntu3
> Severity: important

Hardly.
> 
> 
> The manpage for apt is useless, by its own admission. Contrary to
> popular belief documentation should not be an afterthought or just
> plainly ignored.
> 

Huh?  Imo, there shouldn't even _be_ a man page for apt.  It's not a command
(well, on my system it actually _is_ but it's some kind of alias for
javac).  apt is a "concept", tying together a whole slew of packages.

So I agree that the man page is useless, but in this case I think it
_should_ be ignored (and removed).
-- 
derek





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