[bauerd]

>I'd put easter eggs all over it, just ot remind people there were people on the other end of the line

Most people won't come across your Easter egg since it's hidden. The ones that do encounter it will likely stumble over it, as did the OP, who had their CI pipeline broken. I think easter eggs are a poor tool to "remind people there were people on the other end of the line".

Edit: at least outside of entertainment software

[fkyoureadthedoc]

Oh no, anything but the pipeline run!

[mrguyorama]

If your build pipeline depends on "man -w" and you don't work on man, the easter egg wasn't the problem.

[Denvercoder9]

I guess you could have an integration test that validates that your installer puts the man pages in a directory that man searches in? It's a bit far-fetched but also not entirely outlandish.

[rendall]

Agreed. I'm really trying but failing to come up with a non-screwed-up scenario where this Easter egg legitimately breaks a well-planned testing suite.

[Nifty3929]

This! Is it illegal to have a sense of humor or something? Must everything be serious, when the consequences are essentially zero?

Some of these old easter eggs are great, and I don't think we do enough of that anymore.

[seabass]

Running `man` without any arguments is a fine place to put an easter egg, though. I'm glad this at least stayed there and was only removed from `man -w`.