Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>
cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
       Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, akpm@osdl.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmalloc man page before 2.6.17
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On Fri, 26 May 2006, Paul Drynoff wrote:

> Why? In my Linux OS I should only type something like:
> package-manager install vanilla-sources
> or
> package-manager install git-sources
> 
> and I'll get all documentation generated by "make mandocs" in
> /usr/share/man/man9

Many of us are continually installing kernels again and again for testing 
on a variety of platforms. It would be good to have a package manager 
agnostic version.

Also: Usually the packaging scripts use "make installman" or so to trigger 
the manpage installation.

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