Hopefully this alleviates some concerns. Regards, Jason
On Thursday 16 October 2003 22:55, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:53:20PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > This is an excerpt of a thread started by a "noob" on -user. Basically it > > suggests two sets of installation instructions - GRP and non-GRP. Any > > comments? > > Yes. Although users might find it best if documentation is seperated, it is > difficult to maintain and illogical. We already have problems with outdated > installation instructions for other architectures because most development > happens on the x86 documentation. > > Seperating for every possible choice a user can make would result in > numerous installation documents. However, a quick look informs you that GRP > vs non-GRP only has two (that is 2, 10 in binary) real changes. > > I am currently working on a Gentoo Handbook which contains instructions for > all architectures, all possibilities, all options, all choices. It is far > from difficult to write up such a handbook (although I am currenly lacking > some information which I am building up). Because such a handbook gives us > the possibility to clearly define and explain options, the choices the user > can make are clearly explained. > > The problem we have with the current installation guides is that they are > built from smaller installation guides and kept on growing, without really > changing how things are written. > > The users think that seperated installation guides are the solution, but it > isn't -- they just don't know it :) > > Wkr, > Sven Vermeulen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
