HI. Le samedi 05 mai à 01:02, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Qrux wrote: > > > If LFS is just a source code project, then to some extent you can say that > > prose style or organization is irrelevant. It's not, because it's often > > repeated that it's a book, as well. So, style is important, because > > organization can aid understanding. > > The descriptions and the organization is important, but it satisfies most > users. > We probably go through this discussion two are three time a year. Each time > it's a single user that doesn't quite get it (you got it without problem). > Since we have over 23000 registered users, I'd say that the vast majority get > value from the book as it is. I'm not willing to make major changes for a > vocal > few. We will have to agree to disagree and move on.
I would like to say that the book is nearly perfect ; it seems to me that people having troubles with it have not read it like a book (from the beginning and without skiping paragraphs or sections) or people having no sufficient knowledges about linux. The LFS book is not a magazine where you can pick up informations from a page or another. When I was a young mathematic student, and when I read a book on a new topic for me, I didn't skipped theorems or proofs ; that should have been the best way to misunderstand. Another point is : if some people complain about the book (and often because they are not in the audience of the book), is it a good reason to modify every thing ? I don't think so. The best is to try to help those people on the list even if it is not always easy :-) -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
