On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 13:21, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev <blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > What you propose in V2 is what is used in the lfs book. It looks > slightly better when rendered, but is much less readable when editing.
Yes, it was inspired by the LFS Book. > Now, from my POV, command explanations in blfs are rationales > explaining why they are there, not really full explanations of the > commands themselves. The user is supposed to be able to find those > details by him/herself. So the explanations can be sketchy. But > explanations don't hurt OTOH... I've applied the first version at > r23041. Thanks. I do think that Bruce had a point, when he said that the BLFS book doesn't need to explain the "%p" because a reader can just go and read the man page, however, I'd rather see the Book explain the "%p" AND point them in the direction of the man page, in respect of other "placeholder" parameters in the prompt, so something akin to --with-passprompt: This switch sets the password prompt. The %p will be expanded to the name of the user whose password is being requested. See the manual page for details of other ways to in which to customise the Sudo prompt. Kevin -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
