Chris Bennett writes: > I would instead recommend a new package with the critical newbie > information included in text form. > FAQ, anoncvs and ftp addresses, etc.
Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a general-purpose system administrators manual. I guess people didn't want to update those, or maybe thought they were sacred relics, never to be touched. But all the *BSDs dropped them, years ago. I thought that was the wrong move; they should have been kept, along with a /usr/share/doc/README that noted they are historical, and therefore probably out of date. Although I'm sure the vi documentation stands up to this day. Ragardless, if someone does write a new "intro to sysadmin" document, it should live in /usr/share/doc, and not an external package that the new sysadmin might need to read to know how to install the package that contains the documentation she needs to know how to install the documentation she needs to know how to ... [SIGSEGV -- stack overflow] --lyndon
