[This email contains a rant. It does not reflect any official position of Debian of course! This is simply my opinion.]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Oliver Elphick" <[email protected]> writes: > One curious thing is that there seems to be no link to the Linux > Documentation Project manuals anywhere in Debian. No-one has > packaged them, either. What? Are you kidding? The doc-linux-html package provides the current Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in HTML format. Alternatively, ASCII versions are provided in the doc-linux-text package. . The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-html was created. . All files are available at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ (with versions in ASCII, DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML) > Lars Wirzenius has suggested that we should > only refer to those, rather than rewriting them. I don't agree with > that, because Debian has sufficient coherence and identity to > deserve its own manuals, but it would certainly be useful to users > to be referred to those documents and to the HOWTOs. I would say that we should provide Debian documentation for Debian-specific issues, and use (and maybe help improve) LDP rather than try to replace it. That's the Debian ethic. Let's improve documentation for *all* GNU users! > As Lyno Sullivan has said, the main problem for a new user is > finding out where to get information. Oh, I totally agree. I'll plaster links all over the Installation Document, insofar as we can. However! I think we're currently working in complete isolation from the maintainers of the existing pool of LDP documentation. And I think this is unacceptable. I don't go as far as Lars in saying there's no need for *any* Debian documentation. But I do agree with him that the following documents should be *scrapped* and effort directed towards improving the LDP where necessary. Or, if not scrapped, then written as if they were an appendix to the relevant LDP or existing FAQs, i.e., only supplying Debian-specific information. Debian Tutorial Debian User Reference Manual Debian System Administrator's Manual Debian Network Administrator's Manual I hope I'm not insulting anyone. But I just think that these manuals are 90% non-Debian-specific, currently, and I think it's a mistake and a waste of our time to not work the wider community on these documents. Does anyone agree? Would someone volunteer to liason and be the point person to communicate with "upstream" LDP maintainers? Can work for the general good of the LDP, as well as Debian? We also need someone to go thru the LDP stuff and increase the exposure of Debian, and accuracy of any existing information about Debian, in those documents. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
