Re: New role=man for manpages :]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 16:31, Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Hannes Magnusson > <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Attached is a patch adding a new role (man) for package.xml, intended >> for unix manual pages which should be installed with the applications >> (i.e. PEAR itself, PhD, ...) >> >> Could you review it before I commit to trunk/? > > A few comments — > > Any reason why this can't be a standalone package? Would be annoying complicated to make it so, and IMO useless effort. Unless installed bydefault, it would be utterly useless too as the user would need to install yet another package :| Unix manpages are very standard things for apps, and I actually don't understand why this hasn't existed before given the amount of cli apps distributed via pear. > Do you plan on documenting this role type in the PEAR manual? Kindof. > And how about Pyrus? Will you be working on a patch for the pear installer > v2? Had not planned to.. But suppose I have to if this gets committed? -Hannes