Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:38 -0500, Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > Please refer to Alexander's e-mail at> <http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2006-August/003360.html>.> If there are no objections to his analysis, I will move the hints that > he has mentioned to the OLD/ directory.
Don't delete hints!
just because the newest versiones of {fill in} make them obsolete ...
It still is information, it still might be usefull (if you want to ...
extend an old system may be)
It might still be educational.
One might have some old hardware ...
The proposal, as I understand it, is not to delete these 'obsolete' hints entirely,
just to move them into the OLD/ subdirectory. It's a balance between keeping the info available for situations like you describe (old systems essentially) vs. the confusion caused by people with current systems following hints that purport to be valid when in fact they are known to be obsolete or broken. I support moving them to OLD where they remain available for those who need them. Whether they are finally moved to OLD or not, I still think that Alexander's "2-line" analysis for each hint as to why it is now 'obsolete' should be inserted at the top of each respective hint. Brandon -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
