[ My own given name being a sensitive point with me, I'm posting this despite Harold's request to let his message be the last on this thread. So "for the record..." ]
At 11:10 2002-11-06, you wrote:
For the record, I checked my copy. It didn't have any mention of -rootless.
That doesn't mean that someone has or hasnt thought to add such a section to it.
Instead of flogging an obvious novice (lars) who couldn't find the option, which
is partially understandable as it wasn't documented, I thought perhaps that
reflection on the current-ness of the packaged documentation would be more
productive and positive than vented impatience.
Harold Hunt posted this as part of the original thread that made me so cranky:
Randall,
Be nice.
I posted an announcement for XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-15, but I did not mention that you should use the ``-rootless'' parameter for the rootless mode. Rootless mode is in the stable release, but it is still considered experimental because it may leak memory and it may have certain undesireable behaviors. Although, it seems that rootless mode is pretty much complete because there have not been any significant complaints.
I did a little SNAFU with respect to the man page because I updated the man page, but I did not roll a new release of the man pages package. I should probably do that, but I don't think many users will be pleased with redownloading all XFree86 man pages just to get one new one. I will have to think about that one.
Harold
This, then, is part of the answer to Keith's inability to find a mention of "-rootless" in the on-line documentation.
Granted, as Russell pointed out to me, it is preferred that people search theGiven that I see no Russell in this discussion or anywhere in my Cygwin-XFree86 archive, I assume Kevin's referring to me.
archives before pestering the discussion list, and I agree with that philosophy in
theory and practice, but not everyone gets it. (Including my boss.) On the other
hand, it seems one could argue that we would never need man pages in the Internet
age, as everyone who needs to know how to use something can just search through the
archives of the mailing list dedicated to that program. I'm not sure that's the
best method of disseminating documentation, though.
I'm Randall. "Randy" if you can say it without snickering...
As for me, I'll be sure to be more specific in the future. Regards, Kdt Christopher Faylor was recently quoted as saying... > > I'm not sure what you are pleading for but I don't see why asking people > to contribute is a terrible thing on any list. And, pointing out that > it is ludicrous to ask hundreds of people (i.e., the people on this > mailing list) to check on something like "Is it in the man page yet" > when one could easily check this on their on system is not something > that even a (shudder) "newbie" should have problems with.
Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA