> On Micosoft Windows, there's a "troubleshooting guide" thing that > poinks up when the network fails to work, etc. It's heirarchial > document with questions that click down to more precise questions and > so on down to answers, to guide the user to a problem solution. > > What if we had something like that for Linux, in some standard > document format, so that any package could drop it's trouble shooter > into the directory for them?
I must respond to this. In normal circumstances (user following readily available documentation), there's no way for gnu/linux software to fail so troubleshooting guides are not really neccessary.
