On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 10:08 +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > BLFS has two sources of extra information outside the book itself: > Hints and the Wiki. What's the difference between the two? Have > hints been obsoleted by the Wiki? If not, when is it appropriate to > create a Hint instead of a Wiki page?
I don't know about officially, but from what I've seen, the Wiki is mostly supplemental information for packages that are in the book - alternative configurations, optional dependencies, etc. Whereas the hints are mostly for things that just aren't covered by the books at all - often obscure stuff like random number generation, LVM, bootable CDs, etc. I do think though, that the Wiki somewhat obsoletes the hints, as evidenced by the fact that there have been no new or updated hints in over a year. Similarly, the various *LFS books have taken on some of what used to be hints - ALFS, CLFS, HLFS in particular. Simon.
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