On 3/14/02 12:00, "Chris Devers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > How hard would it be to set up archives for the Fink lists? I understand > that there aren't any at this point, right? It helps that there are FAQs, > but it would be better still if [a] people looking for information could > see if their problem had been cataloged already, and [b] people looking to > help other people looking for information could cite the archives. > > It seems like at this point, the same questions are getting asked several > times a week. It would be nice if we could have archives that helped to > bring down that traffic a bit, or at least elevated it :) > An additional thought that I just had would be to have a 'fink-docs' package as part of the base distribution (or maybe as an optional package). It could just be plain text files installed in /sw/share/docs/fink that contain FAQs and HOWTOS. As questions come up frequently, a maintainer could add FAQs to the package, and during a selfupdate everybody will get the revisions, if it is a required package, or have the option to update it if it is an optional one. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
