[PLUG] Quick question on linux man page coverage

Tomas K tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 10:28:54 UTC 2018


Did you check if you could install some of the missing man/manuals you
care about? Not all man pages are selected for default install.

on my opensuse 42.3:
installed:
sudo zypper search man | awk '$1 !~ /^i/ && $2 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/
{print} $1 ~ /^i/ && $3 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print}' | grep -c '^i'
1
not-installed:
sudo zypper search man | awk '$1 !~ /^i/ && $2 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/
{print} $1 ~ /^i/ && $3 ~ /(^|-)(man|manual)$/ {print}' | grep -cv '^i'
47

I looked for the sl utility - no joy finding it, SAD!
                              no xsnow either, SAD!
                              found xeyes, huraaahhh!

Tomas

On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 15:50 -0700, logical american wrote:
> A brief question on sparse linux documentation for executable
> programs
> 
> I did a survey of the 15,000+ executables on my openSuse Leap v42.3
> OS 
> which has about 8869 software packages loaded according to zypper,
> but 
> 76% of them have no man page at all. I did find dozens of programs 
> running, such as gvfs, which are intrinsic to the OS and some
> apparently 
> embedded in the kernal, most running under systemctl control, but
> with 
> no documentation.
> 
> For openSuse Leap v42.3, it appears that the linux developers just
> want 
> the product out the door and have not documented the /etc folder very
> well.
> 
> Should we be concerned that 3/4 of the programs running on a linux OS
> do 
> not have a man page?
> 
> I was a bit surprised to find this rather high ratio. Is it
> surprising?
> 
> Randall
> 
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