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 1EXqVh-00072h-G2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:36:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA41ZhIn000483; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 01:35:43 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA41X8SY023447 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 01:33:08 GMT Received: from cpe-65-26-255-237.wi.res.rr.com ([65.26.255.237] helo=nightcrawler) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EXqS4-0003YB-EK for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:33:08 +0000 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:33:01 -0600 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Message-ID: <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> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <436AB84B.4010406@ieee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 85728656-607f-403a-a87c-bd5068c23ebf X-Archives-Hash: d2b5821d2941ec2588789bc29ade7343 --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 very > 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 never > 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). We actually have links in the base profile iirc, either way, the=20 example of where this breaks down is headless servers... > The news directory shouldn't the main source of the migration guides; > the website should be (one central page that can feed other sources). Not necessarily the website imo, some central store where it's pushed=20 out to all of the locations though (which I suspect you're getting=20 at). ~harring --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDarpNvdBxRoA3VU0RAnVIAJ4u43lPJnk6wKrq/AocaaGqYmWT6ACcDMnG EA5Cj1Eyl8iFIoGFQ0t5PHU= =vj3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R6sEYoIZpp9JErk7-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list