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On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:02 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> No, gentoo expects people to have access to a webbrowser. But not all the |
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> time. It is perfectly reasonable to expect people to make a nice printout |
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> of the handbook at the office, and then take it at home to install a nice |
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> new gentoo box. |
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We *do* provide the Handbook in PDF on our releases. ;] |
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> > The news directory shouldn't the main source of the migration guides; |
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> > the website should be (one central page that can feed other sources). |
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> The website should not as it a pull source of information. It requires |
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> users to actively acquire the information. What is worse is that some |
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> users might not update for a prolongued time (6 months). At that time |
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> they will not find the information in the erata list anymore. But they |
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> will get the RELEVANT news delivered by emerge/enews. |
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Right. This is the entire point that Stuart was making from the |
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beginning. The *only* thing that we can guarantee users will look at |
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when doing updates is portage itself. Anything else is ancillary to the |
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tree. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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