On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:08:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Modified: trunk/BOOK/prologue/hostreqs.xml
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<..>
> +<screen role="nodump"><userinput>chonw --version</userinput></screen>
^^^^^
FWIW, I really don't like this page. --version is a standard GNU-ism
that should be known. For any package that doesn't create a binary of
the same name (coreutils doesn't make a coreutils binary, glibc doesn't
make a glibc binary) is could be reasonable to add this. A proposed
concept would be:
-------
Paragraph about --version being the most common. Maybe mention -v as
well.
To get the version of some packages, though isn't straight-forward. Here
is the list of those packages:
<add only the non-standard stuff>
-------
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