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Anyone have a hypothesis why there would be a test that calls man without arguments? Is the goal just to check that man is installed? Even so, you'd think you'd
by tempestn 2y ago
Anyone have a hypothesis why there would be a test that calls man without arguments? Is the goal just to check that man is installed? Even so, you'd think you'd test the command as it's normally used...
- kevincox 2y agoReading the answer it seems that the easter egg accidentally also triggered if you pass the page to load via --path. This was then fixed later (and then even later the whole easter egg was removed).
- caymanjim 2y agoI'm pretty sure the Stack Overflow question was contrived nonsense just so the other dude could tell his story in public.
- int_19h 2y agoIt's discussed extensively in the comments on the linked SO question. The short answer: > Because we wanted the "manpath" - 'man -w'
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- Ekaros 2y agoAutomated test that verifies something like just build image installs correctly and man produces expected output?