Subject: Adding external references to the NetBSD manpages? (Was: Add a pkgsrc/security/apg reference to)
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/20/2005 18:25:35
Hi,

do we really want to add such 'external' references to the manpages?
And if so, where do we start an stop doing it?

Bernd

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:45:01PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2005.12.18 18:50:26 -0800, Christian Hopps wrote:
> | Recently I needed to change my password, and in trying to recall the  
> | name of the pkg (apg) that generated good passwords, the first place  
> | I looked was "man passwd" which of course didn't have a reference to  
> | this pkg. Eventually a friend pointed me back to apg. Anyway I'm  
> | wondering if this reference:
> | 
> | .Pa pkgsrc/security/apg
> | 
> | thus:
> | 
> | SEE ALSO
> |     chpass(1), login(1), passwd(5), passwd.conf(5), pam(8), pwd_mkdb 
> | (8),
> |     vipw(8), pkgsrc/security/apg
> | 
> | would be worthwhile addition to the passwd.1 manpage.
> 
> Yes, I think so.
> 
> 		-- Rui Paulo