[Nix-dev] Extra manpage per service?

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

Hi Bjørn,

that sounds amazing, I would love that.  I wouldn't know where to start either, though.


Greets,
Ertugrul


On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 12:02:35 +0200
Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been messing around with the nixos 'graphite' service lately. I
> thought the module was a bit thin on the documentation side, so I
> started to search online. I came across this graphite puppet
> module[1], and what struck me is that there is no way that our current
> "man configuration.nix" can provide that kind of detail for each
> service, without being completely unreadable.
> 
> So, how about we add a manpage for each service.<name>? I think it
> would be a good idea to still have everything in man
> configuration.nix, although "man nixos-service-TAB-TAB" would probably
> be just as easy to navigate.
> 
> Does that sound like a good idea to you? Is it easy to do? I don't
> know where to begin :-)

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