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Saphirus Sage wrote: |
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> Joshua D Doll wrote: |
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>> Dale wrote: |
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>>> Joshua D Doll wrote: |
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>>>> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>>>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman |
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>>>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: I completely agree. I |
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>>>>> like the control also. |
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>>>>> I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new |
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>>>>> user' could read, follow it and understand what it's telling him/her |
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>>>>> to do and then do it and come out with a working machine. I think it's |
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>>>>> true if the new user builds exactly the 3 partition example shown in |
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>>>>> the docs and does *only* the very basic install on a machine that |
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>>>>> doesn't have Windows, etc. However I think that the docs (not the |
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>>>>> software!) could be improved to handle things like dual-boot, either |
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>>>>> another distro or windows, etc. which personally I think 'new users' |
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>>>>> come up against. Issues about stuff like where to put the MBR, why and |
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>>>>> why not to do that sort of thing, requires (or is vastly enhanced) if |
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>>>>> that new user has some knowledge about hard drives, booting, etc. |
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>>>>> - Mark |
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>>>> I 100% agree that the docs can and should cover more. Maybe a |
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>>>> flowchart would be useful? |
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>>>> --Joshua Doll |
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>>> I wish the man pages had more examples. Give me a real world example |
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>>> and I can wrap my poor brain around what it should look like when I do |
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>>> something. |
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>>> Dale |
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>>> :-) :-) |
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>> Man pages are notoriously bad. The gentoo handbook and other official |
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>> docs are great OTOH. |
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>> --Joshua Doll |
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> Man pages notoriously bad?! Now that's a stance I can hardly understand, |
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> they've always been a godsend in my experience! Just practice using a |
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> command a few times, look through the options and learn it in the period |
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> of ten minutes, and a man page has done its purpose. If this stance is |
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> due to your own inadequate ability to read technical documents, then do |
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> not apply the lacking to anything but your own capacity for comprehension. |
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Just cause you haven't run across an uninformative/incomplete man page |
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doesn't mean others haven't. Also man pages lacking valuable information |
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is the reason why GNU has switched to the majority of their packages to |
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using info! You shouldn't flame someone because your experiences are |
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different from their's. |
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--Joshua Doll |
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