From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 12:24:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35de766e-af2b-5b3d-ddbc-8e547693bdbf@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70619295-441f-4b6e-bafa-d6c0df655b2e@dronecode.org.uk>
On 2022-05-14 07:09, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 07/05/2022 19:52, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> I would like to offer to package the following projects for Cygwin.
>> They have been extensively tested on my own system for decades. ;^>
>> They are offered on the major distros listed below, and the cygport
>> builds are available in my Google Drive folders.
>>
>> asr-manpages 20000406 alt.sysadmin.recovery manual pages
>>
>> A set of humorous manual pages developed on alt.sysadmin.recovery
>> (don't treat them seriously!). Some may be considered non-PC, NSFW, or
>> offensive. The authors recommend these man pages be installed on every
>> system.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> funny-manpages 2.3 humorous manual pages
>> A set of miscellaneous humorous manual pages (don't treat
>> them seriously!). Some may be considered non-PC, NSFW, or offensive.
>> You've been warned.
>
> Just a question about the package naming: we already have
> man-pages-{linux,posix} so is there any value in making these consistent?
On the contrary, we really do *NOT* want these confused with
documentation, and only PLD Linux uses man-pages-funny, although Debian
based distros package man-pages/-linux as manpages.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-14 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-07 18:52 Brian Inglis
2022-05-08 15:15 ` Libor Ukropec
2022-05-08 17:49 ` Brian Inglis
2022-05-14 13:15 ` Jon Turney
2022-06-04 13:02 ` LICENSE (was Re: [ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages) Jon Turney
2022-06-04 16:20 ` Brian Inglis
2022-05-14 13:09 ` [ITP] asr-manpages, funny-manpages Jon Turney
2022-05-14 18:24 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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2021-04-11 17:48 Brian Inglis
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