On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:56:56AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > At 17:13 +0200 7/13/02, Matt Kraai wrote: > > >If desired, I'll document this in the manual. I'd rather remove > > >them entirely, however. Why would the user want to rebuild the > > >tarball? > > > > > > > Leave it to the user to decide if he wants to rebuild the tarball. > > It is good the tell that the tool debootstrap exists and how to use it. > > > > Please document it in the manual. > > Moving it to the Technical Info Chapter is IMHO an improvement. > > I'm not sure that this information is useful for anyone, which > is why I'm hesitant to have it in the manual. Keeping useless > information makes it harder to find the useful information. > > Thus, I'd like to hear a reason why the user would want to > rebuild the tarball before I commit to keeping it documented > herein. > > Matt
I think it should go away too. I suppose a person could want to build their own debs.tar if the archive version had been left to get out of date, and they needed to install on a non-networked machine. Rather a corner case. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
