From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:29:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120327192934.GA6936@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAATnKFDbVmxpDoRY=7nPMb+-wHM6tFA2iB_y=vH8wTWSE6-awQ@mail.gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1480 bytes --]
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:20:45AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 28 March 2012 08:15, Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> Then again, Gentoo is about choice. It just seems like we're
> >> presenting users with more choices than makes sense for a newbie. If
> >> there is a choice between something that 99.99% of users will want,
> >> and some ancient piece of cruft that still works and is better for
> >> 0.01% of the userbase, does that really have to be in the handbook?
> >
> > Welcome to documentation development. The Gentoo Handbook has always been a
> > difficult source for such discussions. If we truely want to provide
> > information towards our users on all possible choices, you'll need a totally
> > different approach.
> >
> > I once started (before I left Gentoo, rejoined, left again) on a "complete
> > gentoo handbook" that covered much more in greater detail (you'll find the
> > last version at
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/handbook.xml) but I've
> > since moved away from that. Perhaps I should work again on it...
> >
> > Wkr,
> > Sven Vermeulen
> >
>
>
> An idea is a javascripty-dynamic-slidey thing that makes more details
> and advanced stuff visible to people who want it, so you can adjust
> the documentation to suit your skill level.
Why not just the separate "quick install" guide like we have that lists
steps and the handbook if yu want more details?
William
[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-27 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20337.28987.736877.961717@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
[not found] ` <20120327154239.GA17394@gentoo.org>
2012-03-27 17:49 ` [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook Pacho Ramos
2012-03-27 18:01 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 18:21 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-03-27 18:34 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-03-27 18:47 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-27 18:53 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-27 19:02 ` vivo75
2012-03-27 19:04 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-03-27 19:13 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-27 19:31 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-03-27 19:16 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-30 8:00 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-27 19:15 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 19:20 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-27 19:29 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2012-03-27 19:40 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 19:57 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-27 20:15 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-27 20:05 ` Alec Moskvin
2012-03-30 8:06 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-31 8:44 ` Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-31 9:35 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-31 13:36 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-31 13:34 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-31 17:42 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-31 23:25 ` Walter Dnes
2012-04-01 0:33 ` Zac Medico
2013-07-21 11:42 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-07-21 11:57 ` Michał Górny
2013-07-21 12:06 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-07-21 12:15 ` Michał Górny
2013-07-21 18:00 ` Zac Medico
2013-07-21 18:55 ` Michał Górny
2013-07-21 14:26 ` Michael Weber
2013-07-21 14:46 ` justin
2013-07-21 17:01 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-04-01 8:06 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-04-01 15:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-02 4:41 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-30 7:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Pacho Ramos
2012-03-30 7:57 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-27 18:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-28 7:16 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-03-28 10:35 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-28 14:53 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-28 14:59 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-28 15:27 ` Matt Turner
2012-03-28 15:37 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-28 18:56 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-03-28 17:41 ` Joshua Kinard
2012-03-28 22:27 ` Joshua Saddler
2012-03-29 0:35 ` Dale
2012-03-29 2:21 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-03-29 3:11 ` Dale
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120327192934.GA6936@linux1 \
--to=williamh@gentoo.org \
--cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox