On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> But to spend my time searching for the documentation for packages between
> /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc (as an example) is not a worthwhile use of my
> time.
Indeed, that is a reason to stick with a particular distribution.
Remember, folks: Linux is fairly nebulous concept. If you go out and find
all the original packages, all you have is a bunch of tarballs containing
unconfigured sources. They do not have any particular place in the filesystem
they want to live. The distributor has to make that choice.
> Writing documentation about using DocBook, for example, is getting harder since
> each distribution puts their DTDs in different locations.
I take it that DocBook/SGML/whatever does not support the concept of a
locally-defined search path? Bummer.
Still, that seems to follow suit, if you think about it. SGML is basically
a kind of programming language. It sounds like even documentation sources are
going to start needing GNU autoconf to "compile" correctly.
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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