Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:30:13 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chainsawing the "Mouse" section of the FAQ Message-ID: <3E957FF5.2000103@centtech.com> References: <20030408112740.A83997@blackhelicopters.org> <ezadezmqrs.dez@localhost.localdomain> <20030410141607.GB95802@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:09:43PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > >>"Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> writes: >> >>>Any comments? >> >>Sure. Your considerable talents would be better spent on the FreeBSD >>Handbook. The FAQ should be a delete-only document. The sooner it rots >>away, the better. It's upkeep involves a duplication of effort that is >>worse than useless, as it tends to force FreeBSD users to have to hunt >>for information in an extra place for information that is not >>necessarily any more helpful than what the Handbook (or an Article) has >>(or should have). It's bad enough that the FDP has to duplicate so much >>of what xfree86.org has on mouse configuration, but that's given the >>existance and nature of "moused", I guess there's no alternative to >>that. > > > Hmm. > > I quite like the idea of the FAQ merging in to the Handbook. > > Each chapter starts with a "Synopsis" section -- there's no reason why > they couldn't end with a "FAQ" section. If we wanted a separate FAQ > document, it could be generated by pulling out all the FAQ sections from > the Handbook. Ooooo.. I like this a lot.. This seems like the "right way".. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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