Archaic wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:08:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Modified: trunk/BOOK/prologue/hostreqs.xml >> =================================================================== > <..> > >> +<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> > -------
Perhaps --version is standard, but my experience with classroom students, even in the 2nd or 3rd course, is that they don't know about it. I am not 100% happy with the appearance, but the content is good. I'm thinking of an alternative presentation. Let me try to set it up and I'll post it for review. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
