Those goddamn old docs are killing me
If you use Linux, or if you use any complicated computer software, chances are, you have read a documentation. In fact, the first place I go to when I have a question or an issue is the damn documentation because if I can't find it there, what the heck, right? Now I am not telling that I always use docs or manpages (as a matter of fact I never used manpages before) but the problem is, when you see an entry in a wiki or documentation and it is not usable now.
Right now, I am in the process of making some aliases to maybe clean my system and you know, make my home more of myself. So, as a Fedora user, I wanted to see how to update my distro from the cli. I have never done anything like that in this distro since it automatically updated.
So, being the grateful person I am, I went into the corresponding documentation page. Now, I should admit I like the new DNF5 although I haven't played with it very much yet. So, I saw the command and wrote an alias for it. And it worked just fine.
Moving on, if you scroll a little bit further, you will see a header named Clean-up old packages, in this header, it tells you 'sudo dnf remove --duplicates' exists. It doesn't. I know it doesn't because I looked everywhere.
First, dnf's help page of remove subcommand does not list a duplicates flag. So, I thought my dnf was not the latest version and tried to update it. With no luck.
Then, I went into the internet and saw this command doesn't exist in dnf5. Weird part is, the doc page acknowledges the existence of dnf5 and actually mentions special commands for it.
This type of documentation is not 'wrong', neither 'outdated'. But it is weird. And it happens a lot. Not everybody knows hot to get into the itsy-bitsy of the source codes to see what is going on, so yeah. If you are a maintainer or a developer, the least you can do for your audience is just giving them up-to-date documentation because without them your whole product is useless.