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Re: PATCH: Place manuals under the GDFL

To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Place manuals under the GDFL
From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:49:02 -0700
Cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk
References: <20010430153618U.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <Pine.LNX.4.32.0105010044410.1603-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <20010430173129L.mitchell@codesourcery.com>

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:31:29PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>     Joseph> notices included in manpages generated from cpp.texi,
>     Joseph> gcov.texi and invoke.texi.
> 
> In my opinion, we should just remove the man-pages, or replace them
> with stubs that point to the TeXinfo documentation.

I must respectfully disagree.  The user community has made quite clear
that it wants substantial manpages.  They are generated from the
TeXinfo documentation, so there is no real maintenance burden.

zw

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