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From: | Matthew Woehlke |
Subject: | misdirected ubuntu requests (yes this is relevant) |
Date: | Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:25:24 -0600 |
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After the latest incident of misdirected Ubuntu requests (in French, no less), I decide to file a bug against Ubuntu [1].
Ondřej Vašík wrote:
One confusing thing for new-to-linux users is install utility - as they think that man install would be about installation process oflinux - which is obviously not true as it refers to install utility manpage. That's at least one of the mails ... others could be caused by something different.
So... we have one possible explanation. I'm not sure if we want to do anything about this, however; I could see adding a brief snippet to the 'what is "install"' section that 'install' is NOT general information about the distro, but (due to help2man) that might be technically difficult and not worth the return. That said, I'm also not sure if typing "man install" is why people end up here.
I don't recall ever seeing any replies on-list to the query why people wound up here erroneously. Has anyone been sent an explanation privately?
At any rate, the nice folks at Ubuntu are now aware of the problem as well. 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294348 -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- No .sig for you! NEXT! -- Unknown
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