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Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:24:27PM -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote: |
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>>I'm also commenting on the part that *wrongly* states "It is not |
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>>reasonable to expect all users to have an MTA, *web browser*, email |
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>>client, cron daemon or text processing suite available on their system. |
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>>In particular, this means that any markup to be parsed must be in a very |
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>>simple format." |
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>>*ALL* of the official docs are GuideXML; Gentoo *expects* users to have |
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>>a web browser by default. Otherwise a vast majority of users would never |
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>>get Gentoo installed in the first place. The "lightweight" requirement |
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>>appears to just be your way of subverting the current documentation |
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>>standards (because of your XML hatred). |
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> We actually have links in the base profile iirc, either way, the |
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> example of where this breaks down is headless servers... |
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Actually, a headless server would be administered from a workstation |
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that would actually have a head. (Unless you like the idea of |
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installing things by typing blindly on a keyboard ;)) |
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And as I mentioned in my last reply to Ciaran, I doubt anyone installing |
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a server doesn't have access to the web (another computer for example). |
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And having the GuideXML as the main source does NOT preclude having the |
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other sources (such as emerge --news) for people sitting in the dark. |
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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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> Not necessarily the website imo, some central store where it's pushed |
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> out to all of the locations though (which I suspect you're getting |
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> at). |
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If I understand his position correctly, Ciaran doesn't want the GuideXML |
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version at all, which is a supremely stupid idea IMHO. |
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