Subject: Re: bin/30539 (was Re: wtf is perl)
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/22/2005 13:27:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/30539; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
To: ghen@telenet.be
Cc: "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com>,
gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/30539 (was Re: wtf is perl)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:26:37 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> wtf is meant to translate *acronyms*, while most package names are not.
>> Therefore, this functionality doesn't belong here.
>
> Hmm. wtf already calls whatis(1) which does something similar as my patch.
> e.g. "wtf is disklabel" (which works) is not translating an acronym either.
If anything, it should run "pkg_info -qc".
- Hubert