Re: Documentation and Useability - a proposed solution

2004-01-20 Thread Kevin Mark
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

Re: Documentation and Useability - a proposed solution

2004-01-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:48:08PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: Hopefully I didn't snip too much and get toasted because of it. Hmm... Here is my proposed solution: Only allow completely documented packages in stable. Other packages can go to non-free or Experts Only or some other name

Re: Documentation and Useability - a proposed solution

2004-01-19 Thread Mac McCaskie
Pigeon wrote: It's the result of people providing facilities because they want to, and are free to do it in the way that they want to. Most authors/maintainers of free software provide documentation. Some do it better than others. One or two can't be bothered to provide any, and users of their

Re: Documentation and Useability - a proposed solution

2004-01-19 Thread Nano Nano
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:48:08PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: Here is my proposed solution: Only allow completely documented packages in stable. Other packages can go to non-free or Experts Only or some other name that will warn the users caution is warrented. This solution WILL NOT

Re: Documentation and Useability - a proposed solution

2004-01-19 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:48:08 -0600 Mac McCaskie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pigeon wrote: It's the result of people providing facilities because they want to, and are free to do it in the way that they want to. Most authors/maintainers of free software provide documentation. Some do it

Re: Documentation and Useability - a proposed solution

2004-01-19 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Mac McCaskie wrote: My argument is that as a noobie, I have access to packages that are not well documented though the main distribution. STOP ME BEFORE I APT-GET AGAIN -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To