Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] OpenLDAP docs (was: [gentoo-desktop] What "just works" and what doesn't?)
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:57:27
Message-Id: 20041007175708.GB8323@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] OpenLDAP docs (was: [gentoo-desktop] What "just works" and what doesn't?) by Tim Weber
1 On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Tim Weber wrote:
2 > I don't know why documentation stuff gets removed from the website anyway.
3
4 If it's unmaintained and there are bugs about the document, we generally
5 remove the link from the index but the document remains
6 (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml is still available).
7
8 If the document contains more erroneous information than your memoires, we
9 move it up the Attic.
10
11 > Concerning the LDAP HOWTO and docs, the problem I had with all of them was
12 > that there were no docs around which told me for example how to organize my
13 > tree, or which are the most commonly used objectClasses. You know, all
14 > guides explain to you how to set up the software, all tell you that there is
15 > a tree and stuff, but none tells you how you should use it.
16
17 True, but without someone experienced in this area it's quite difficult to
18 write such docs.
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20 Sven Vermeulen
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