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I don't think tldr is a small CLI program unless you already have Node.js installed. :) And I also don't see why installing that is easier than installing man
by omaranto 7y ago
I don't think tldr is a small CLI program unless you already have Node.js installed. :)
And I also don't see why installing that is easier than installing man pages, if appropriately packaged. (I'm not claiming they are currently appropriately packaged, I'm just saying that's what they could have done instead of writing a client.)
- beart 7y agoI don't think you need Nodejs. There are a large number of clients listed here https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr#clients https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr#clients
- therealjumbo 7y agoDebian has a package "tldr" implemented in haskell, that's under 1 MB. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tldr https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tldr I just found that and installed it after reading this thread. It looks like on first run, like "tldr tar", it calls "git clone" on some repo. Thereafter, other incantations like "tldr grep" use the already local repo. And the repo can be updated with tldr --update. Seems very fast.