On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: >> Tom H wrote: >> > Paul E Condon wrote: >> > > Tom H wrote: >> > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > >> >> This is the same url as the previous (grub1) manual, so as far as >> > >> >> gnu is >> > >> >> concerned, there must only be one grub... >> > >> > >> > >> > How bad! :-( > > They have moved on. It doesn't benefit the upstream to keep two > versions active. For better or for worse this is mostly how all > upstreams work. > >> > >> > There are still people using Grub legacy and online manual is very >> > >> > useful >> > >> > (i.e., for pointing someone to a specific paragraph or give it a quick >> > >> > review). > > True. But you can always quote the parts to which you are referring. > >> > The first has the following at the top: >> > 'You can browse the documentation of GNU GRUB by "info grub" on your >> > shell prompt (or use your favorite Info browser, if you don't like >> > info).' >> > >> > Strange decision... > > Why is that strange? The official documentation for GNU projects is > texinfo documentation. It has been this way for a very long time.
It is strange because it would have been easy and wold not have been taxing to have a http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grublegacy.html page for those people who need to consult or refer others to grub-legacy's manual online. Furthermore, many distributions default to grub1, Debian Stable, Fedora, RHEL and its clones (in the latter case, probably until 2014 for RHEL 5 and, since RHEL 6 is based on F12/F13, probably until 2017 for RHEL 6). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
