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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:40:51
Message-Id: 20050914171137.GC8513@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQs for maintainer-wanted ebuilds by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 05:55:42PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > No. GuideXML URLs utterly suck. They're impossible to memorise and the
3 > second I changed anything every link would become invalid.
4
5 But at least the layout is consistent, the location is official, concurrent
6 development is possible and the resource is shared on multiple web nodes.
7
8 Not to mention that GuideXML URLs don't suck and are a lot easier to
9 remember. You just need to know the name of the document:
10 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/<document>
11 whereas with dev.g.o URLs, you have
12 http://dev.gentoo.org/~<user>/<path>/<document>
13
14 Wkr,
15 Sven Vermeulen
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