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Re: SEE ALSO fails


From: Peter Schaffter
Subject: Re: SEE ALSO fails
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:16:08 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, Larry McVoy wrote:
> If the proposal is to remove See Also's that aren't installed, I
> could not be more against that idea.  That just makes the system
> harder to learn.

I don't have a position on this because I've never given it a
moment's thought.  That said, surely a better solution, at least
theoretically, would be to flag uninstalled SEE ALSO references
rather removing them.  SEE ALSO *mg(1), for example, assuming star
means uninstalled or not present.

-- 
Peter Schaffter
https://www.schaffter.ca



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