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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by jwilk on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:57AM (#17800446)
More importantly, many (most?) GNU projects don't care about man pages:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by jplayer01 on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:19PM (#17801226)
This encapsulates one of my biggest gripes with Linux. A lack of appreciation for adequate/good documentation.

> The time you spend on the man page is time taken away from more useful work.

Making sure your users know how your program works, how to use it and what it's capable of seems incredibly important and useful to me.

If it weren't for Arch Linux's fantastic focus on documenting everything to do with Linux, I wouldn't be using Linux at all.

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by KC8ZKF on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:03PM (#17801634)
GNU deprecates man pages in favor of texinfo, not no documentation at all.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Documentation.h...

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by owaty on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:52PM (#17801517)
That page is specific to man pages, not to documentation in general.

See https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.htm...

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