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sabotage-linux / sabotage

a radical and experimental distribution based on musl libc and busybox
http://sabo.xyz
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busybox doesn't install manpages for its tools. #16

Open rofl0r opened 12 years ago

rofl0r commented 12 years ago

update: there's a busybox-man pkg now which installs busybox.1 i'm looking for a way that it creates subpages for cp, ls, etc so that you can call man ls from the command line and dont have to search in the busybox manpage.

rofl0r commented 12 years ago

apparently we have to code it ourselves. actually i dont think that making an own pod2man in C is a big project. it seems upstreams busybox may be interested in a patch.

rofl0r commented 10 years ago

the busybox manpages are actually utterly useless, it's just a copy of each program's --help output. it seems the right approach is to make busybox pkg call a script that creates a manpage from each commands --help output, and get rid of the separate busybox-man package. alternatively, one could just add a tiny manpage that says to invoke command --help.