On Sunday 05 April 2009 12:02:21 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > You don't need to change the book number just make the changes > > in the book. On the page where the people will download the > > book just warn them to check there for the newest version. This > > is what other major open source developers do. Why do you want > > to make it complicated. You are not empressing any one by doing > > it the old hard way. > > > > To deliberately limit yourself in that manner with a live > > flowing electronic document is just foolish. Why limit your > > flow of communication by following the traditions of an old > > technology that does not have a better choice? > > This discussion really should be in -dev and not -support. > However, I'll answer it here. > > The idea of a 'stable' book is to provide, umm, stability. We > already tell you and other readers how to handle url problems. > If you want newer packages, use the -dev book. In this way we > give the best of both worlds -- a stable, tested environment and > a cutting edge book with the latest packages. > > -- Bruce
My initial response in this thread was to point out there are places in the book where it could have been written a lot clearer, such as the example that was used by the OP. Instead of telling the reader to look in vii. Errata just make the changes in the document. I wasn't talking about newer versions of software or altered versions of steps or processes. Why do so many computer geeks want to make things complicated? -- http://www.wowgreen.net/11324 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
