On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:48:08PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >It's the result of people providing facilities because they want to, and <snip> > > I think this may summarize my point(?). For those of you that have > expertise with Debian, it must be a no brainier to grab a package and > install it. Right? Meaning you probably could install something that > doesn't have the "Debian Stamp of Approval" simply because you have much > more experience that I or any other noobie (aka newbie). > > I agree that yes you should have the capability to install anything you > please (and you probably have). I don't think I ever intended to > proclaim you should be denighed the ability to install them. > > My argument is that as a noobie, I have access to packages that are not > well documented though the main distribution. Hi Mac <two-sheds> McCaskie, Debian and other *nixes are not just made up of a few man pages. To learn things in this universe, the first thing is to learn where you can get help: man pages, doc packages, web sites, dead tree docs, interfaceing with people through various interfaces (email, p2p,LUGs). These all qualify to ME as documentation. If everthing was written in a man pages, I'd never get to discuss 'stonehenge' or 'pigeons' or 'installing package foo with kernel x.y.z on my amiga'. So, even if I know how to install foo, with the OTHER sources of documentation mentioned above, I might find n more ways to do the same thing in better or different ways. Just my 2 yens worth. -Kev
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