#5161 HIGH Retriag: Install manual pages when the choice is made to do so. (was: set up a global alias for 'man' and 'info' directing people to more info)

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#5161: Install manual pages when the choice is made to do so.
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  Reporter:  sj      |       Owner:  dgilmore         
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new              
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Retriage, Please!
 Component:  distro  |     Version:                   
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                   
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:                   
 Blockedby:          |  
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Changes (by dking):

  * priority:  low => high
  * milestone:  Future Release => Retriage, Please!


Comment:

 Replying to [ticket:5161 sj]:
 > we don't ship man pages atm.  we can make 'man' and 'info' aliases that
 tell people just discovering their terminal exactly what command to run to
 install them.

 This is a bigger problem than you think.

 1. Multiple packages available by YUM refuse to install the correct manual
 page expected. You cant even do a "man ls" and have it work.

 2. Multiple packages in YUM created expressly to get this man page data
 installed locally are empty and installing them gives empty directories.
 This includes the "man" "Man-pages" and other development packages that
 should include the man pages for things like API calls (Like "man
 printf"), so basically installing these packages is a no-op that takes up
 space on the XO.

 3. We still allow people to install the man page tools and man-pages
 packages; We need to allow the children to have the option to choose what
 they decide to put on the XO.

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