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Originally Posted by b0uncer
In my own opinion info pages are more difficult to use (man only needs upwards/downwards scrolling, no "links", can search) and man pages hold all the relative information, I've never actually found anything from info that wasn't in man that I'd need. Shortly said, I think man is faster to use.
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I think, info pages more
complex, not more difficult. I agreed with you, that man pages faster, but I always use info, if I have that choice.
And, I using Emacs for all my works and even for my personal needs, so info is the best for me, as Emacs is the best info reader.
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Originally Posted by b0uncer
erybody's own choice, but I think having both man- and info pages on disk is just a waste of disk space. And not all distributions even come with info pages, so it's a good thing to learn to use the manual pages the Unix way.
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In my distro - Debian GNU Linux, man pages usually comes from package with program, in opposite, info pages comes from package with documentation for program. So it's impossible to remove man- or info-pages without removing its package.
And disk space is really cheap today.
Finally, I use man-pages very often, if program is simple, for reference about options and such things. But,
find is rather complex utility, that's why I suggest using its info page.
P.S.: I remember, Mandrake Linux 6.0 had option for installing even without man-pages.