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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:36:53
Message-Id: 20051104013301.GG5073@nightcrawler
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting by "Nathan L. Adams"
1 On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:24:27PM -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
2 > I'm also commenting on the part that *wrongly* states "It is not
3 > reasonable to expect all users to have an MTA, *web browser*, email
4 > client, cron daemon or text processing suite available on their system.
5 > In particular, this means that any markup to be parsed must be in a very
6 > simple format."
7 >
8 > *ALL* of the official docs are GuideXML; Gentoo *expects* users to have
9 > a web browser by default. Otherwise a vast majority of users would never
10 > get Gentoo installed in the first place. The "lightweight" requirement
11 > appears to just be your way of subverting the current documentation
12 > standards (because of your XML hatred).
13
14 We actually have links in the base profile iirc, either way, the
15 example of where this breaks down is headless servers...
16
17 > The news directory shouldn't the main source of the migration guides;
18 > the website should be (one central page that can feed other sources).
19 Not necessarily the website imo, some central store where it's pushed
20 out to all of the locations though (which I suspect you're getting
21 at).
22 ~harring

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>