On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:02 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > No, gentoo expects people to have access to a webbrowser. But not all the > time. It is perfectly reasonable to expect people to make a nice printout > of the handbook at the office, and then take it at home to install a nice > new gentoo box.
We *do* provide the Handbook in PDF on our releases. ;] > > The news directory shouldn't the main source of the migration guides; > > the website should be (one central page that can feed other sources). > > The website should not as it a pull source of information. It requires > users to actively acquire the information. What is worse is that some > users might not update for a prolongued time (6 months). At that time > they will not find the information in the erata list anymore. But they > will get the RELEVANT news delivered by emerge/enews. Right. This is the entire point that Stuart was making from the beginning. The *only* thing that we can guarantee users will look at when doing updates is portage itself. Anything else is ancillary to the tree. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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