-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:24:27PM -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > >>I'm also commenting on the part that *wrongly* states "It is not >>reasonable to expect all users to have an MTA, *web browser*, email >>client, cron daemon or text processing suite available on their system. >>In particular, this means that any markup to be parsed must be in a very >>simple format." >> >>*ALL* of the official docs are GuideXML; Gentoo *expects* users to have >>a web browser by default. Otherwise a vast majority of users would never >>get Gentoo installed in the first place. The "lightweight" requirement >>appears to just be your way of subverting the current documentation >>standards (because of your XML hatred). > > > We actually have links in the base profile iirc, either way, the > example of where this breaks down is headless servers...
Actually, a headless server would be administered from a workstation that would actually have a head. (Unless you like the idea of installing things by typing blindly on a keyboard ;)) And as I mentioned in my last reply to Ciaran, I doubt anyone installing a server doesn't have access to the web (another computer for example). And having the GuideXML as the main source does NOT preclude having the other sources (such as emerge --news) for people sitting in the dark. >>The news directory shouldn't the main source of the migration guides; >>the website should be (one central page that can feed other sources). > > Not necessarily the website imo, some central store where it's pushed > out to all of the locations though (which I suspect you're getting > at). If I understand his position correctly, Ciaran doesn't want the GuideXML version at all, which is a supremely stupid idea IMHO. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDarxP2QTTR4CNEQARAvnNAJ4gJb41KcQuE2lsSDoTY4Se9wg+8wCfQKqQ TMwatb4SkjOLfuUJyv7xTf0= =f/nj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
