The following reply was made to PR docs/84956; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/84956: [patch] intro(5) manpage doesn't mention API
coverage
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:09:19 -0700
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
> Ouch! The link(5) and acct(5) manpages seem a bit misplaced. They
> don't describe a "file format", so they shouldn't be in section (5)
> IMHO. There are a few other manpages in ``/usr/share/man/man5''
> that I am not sure about either.
If you want me to do something, let me know. I could do more research
and maybe ask ask on one or more lists whether people have objections
to moving each seemingly-misplaced manpage to a newly-proposed section.
> My intuition says that anyone who is reading intro(X) manpages should be
> able to find out about all the other intro(Y) manpages. So, it seems
> that inter-linking from any intro(X) manpage to the other intro(Y)
> manpages, where X != Y, seems reasonable.
Are you saying they should each reference all the others? OK by me,
but I think it would better to have them all reference only intro(1),
which already references all the others (except "intro(n)" because it
does not exist). Manpage intro(1) probably also should have a section
explaining the manual in general. I'll write PRs on the last two
problems.
But intro(5) should not reference only intro(1) and intro(8).
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