why man pages are stripped off in FC10?

vu pham vu at sivell.com
Mon Jan 5 20:49:04 PST 2009


James McDonald wrote:
> vu pham wrote:
>> Why uder FC10, some man pages are sripped off the package ? For 
>> example, in RHEL5, the man page of udevcontrol is included in the 
>> package udev, and it is not in FC10 ?
>>
>> Below are the output of rpm -qd udev under FC and RHEL. A lot of man 
>> pages disappear in FC10.
> I count 10 man pages for F10 to 12 for EL5 ?
> 
> I would assume they aren't included because they are no longer needed. 
> It would appear that udevadm would now contain most of the missing man 
> pages info.

I think you are right. Didn't see the udevadm. So FC10 includes all the 
udevmonitor, udevinfo ... just for the purpose of compatibility, I think.

Thanks,

Vu




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