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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:34:36 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" |
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<drobbins.daniel@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 3/3/07, Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> > What do you think of a simplified handbook ? One that presents a lot |
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> > fewer choices to the user, in order to be less confusing. |
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> YES, it's needed. The handbook didn't turn out quite as I expected it |
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> to. It should document a typical installation process with small links |
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> to alternate approaches and options that a user might opt to follow. |
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I asked for this approach back when the handbook was first created. It |
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was rejected by the docs team for being "too complicated to maintain". |
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Following Sven's (I think...) suggestion, I instead ported the quick |
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install guide (which is one page, and doesn't go off on lots of |
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weird tangents) to the archs upon which I was working at the time. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/ |