Skip to main content
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
Source Link
  1. After asking Question X (listing commands a package provideslisting commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X would be.
  2. An hour later, someone asks Question ~XQuestion ~X.
  3. This is promptly nominated for closing as a duplicate of Question X.

This feels like a duplicate. Yet when I also started to vote to close it, I became unsure since the answer is included merely as background to another question.

My question is whether this taken as a general case (apart from the merit or specifics of these two questions) is a truly a duplicate or not.

Update: The close vote was retracted and an answer has been provided, so maybe I have an answer; but comments/answers to this question are still welcome.

  1. After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X would be.
  2. An hour later, someone asks Question ~X.
  3. This is promptly nominated for closing as a duplicate of Question X.

This feels like a duplicate. Yet when I also started to vote to close it, I became unsure since the answer is included merely as background to another question.

My question is whether this taken as a general case (apart from the merit or specifics of these two questions) is a truly a duplicate or not.

Update: The close vote was retracted and an answer has been provided, so maybe I have an answer; but comments/answers to this question are still welcome.

  1. After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X would be.
  2. An hour later, someone asks Question ~X.
  3. This is promptly nominated for closing as a duplicate of Question X.

This feels like a duplicate. Yet when I also started to vote to close it, I became unsure since the answer is included merely as background to another question.

My question is whether this taken as a general case (apart from the merit or specifics of these two questions) is a truly a duplicate or not.

Update: The close vote was retracted and an answer has been provided, so maybe I have an answer; but comments/answers to this question are still welcome.

Tweeted twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/447689017308741632
added 153 characters in body
Source Link
chaskes
  • 15.4k
  • 11
  • 7
  1. After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X would be.
  2. An hour later, someone asks Question ~X.
  3. This is promptly nominated for closing as a duplicate of Question X.

This feels like a duplicate. Yet when I also started to vote to close it, I became unsure since the answer is included merely as background to another question.

My question is whether this taken as a general case (apart from the merit or specifics of these two questions) is a truly a duplicate or not.

Update: The close vote was retracted and an answer has been provided, so maybe I have an answer; but comments/answers to this question are still welcome.

  1. After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X would be.
  2. An hour later, someone asks Question ~X.
  3. This is promptly nominated for closing as a duplicate of Question X.

This feels like a duplicate. Yet when I also started to vote to close it, I became unsure since the answer is included merely as background to another question.

My question is whether this taken as a general case (apart from the merit or specifics of these two questions) is a truly a duplicate or not.

  1. After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X would be.
  2. An hour later, someone asks Question ~X.
  3. This is promptly nominated for closing as a duplicate of Question X.

This feels like a duplicate. Yet when I also started to vote to close it, I became unsure since the answer is included merely as background to another question.

My question is whether this taken as a general case (apart from the merit or specifics of these two questions) is a truly a duplicate or not.

Update: The close vote was retracted and an answer has been provided, so maybe I have an answer; but comments/answers to this question are still welcome.

fixed bad typo in title
Link
chaskes
  • 15.4k
  • 11
  • 7

Is isit a duplicate when the answer is given as background in another question?

Source Link
chaskes
  • 15.4k
  • 11
  • 7
Loading