Re: [Tracker] manual pages

["Marcus Fritzsch" <fritschy googlemail com>]

HI,

On 7/18/07, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> 2007/7/18, Marcus Fritzsch <fritschy googlemail com>:
> > As Jamie wants to release, I took a look at the man pages. Is there
> > any policy on how they should be handled?!
> >
> > I now 'fixed' up the trackerd.1 manual, following the suggestions and
> > guidelines of man-pages(7) - as this is the first time I write/fix a
> > manual, please comment!
>
> Most users that have tracker installed, won't have beagle on their
> system, so I wouldn't include beagle in the SEE ALSO list. Just seems
> a bit odd to include beagle there...

Yep ;)

I thought of SEE ALSO being a selection of relating material, i.e.
also those referenced in the text... Am I worng here?

> I also wouldn't include dbus-daemon/dbus-launch in the SEE ALSO list
> (you already reference dbus-daemon in NOTES). dbus-launch is also not
> necessarily installed (e.g. if your dbus-daemon is autostarted by
> gnome-session)

Usually yes - ok.

> As a last point, tracker.cfg (5) is not (yet) written.
> So we should either write a tracker.cfg manpage or remove the
> tracker.cfg (5) reference from FILES. I of course would welcome the
> former ;-)

Hehe, I know it's not there ;), but I thought that might change until release ;)

Thanks, Marcus