From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EY2JA-0001Yb-52 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:12:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4E9b7c022232; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:09:37 GMT Received: from smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4E45uD015257 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:04:05 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp05.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id jA4E4I4F027611 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:04:18 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:03:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051104013301.GG5073@nightcrawler> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <200511011722.29840.jkt@gentoo.org> <20051101182506.4dd701f6@snowdrop.home> <436A1576.5070909@ieee.org> <20051103191642.1fbdbd9d@snowdrop.home> <436AAB79.4020700@ieee.org> <20051104004247.0ff50ff0@snowdrop.home> <436AB342.9040606@ieee.org> <20051104011106.780b46bb@snowdrop.home> <436AB84B.4010406@ieee.org> <20051104013301.GG5073@nightcrawler> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6pyaxunw6wGZoPTi+Gzj" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:03:30 -0500 Message-Id: <1131113011.18994.3.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: 5466c3f4-b89a-4134-adbe-915bb13f0fe1 X-Archives-Hash: a5c6ab4ad9d51cd17949c9e8eed4d257 --=-6pyaxunw6wGZoPTi+Gzj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:33 -0600, Brian Harring wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:24:27PM -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > > I'm also commenting on the part that *wrongly* states "It is not > > reasonable to expect all users to have an MTA, *web browser*, email > > client, cron daemon or text processing suite available on their system. > > In particular, this means that any markup to be parsed must be in a ver= y > > simple format." > >=20 > > *ALL* of the official docs are GuideXML; Gentoo *expects* users to have > > a web browser by default. Otherwise a vast majority of users would neve= r > > get Gentoo installed in the first place. The "lightweight" requirement > > appears to just be your way of subverting the current documentation > > standards (because of your XML hatred). >=20 > We actually have links in the base profile iirc, either way, the=20 > example of where this breaks down is headless servers... There are no web browsers in the base profile, the stages, nor in the "system" target for any architecture or project. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-6pyaxunw6wGZoPTi+Gzj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDa2oykT4lNIS36YERAubcAKCpesd8n+8ikIRRDx7JJLm6trDyCwCcCXfh xLsSPUywFaeWV2q7DUKPPpI= =3P4I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6pyaxunw6wGZoPTi+Gzj-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list