Comment man page deficiencies? (Score 1) 40
There exists a package of programs for producing maps and charts in PostScript using an entirely command-line interface (GMT). Currently, the package is installed by default as a number of executables, along with man pages for each. However, it was recently discovered that the names of the executables conflict with other names of executables in another package.
One proposed solution was to change the interface so that every command is instead run as "gmt cmdname options" (like CVS). The immediate deficiency with this is that how to organize man pages is no longer obvious (the man page for each command was already quite long enough---we don't want a huge result to "man gmt"). Leaving the man pages the way they are is not an option---the names could still conflict with man pages for other packages. This is, of course, easily solved by info or HTML.
Any alternative solutions?
