Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:16:54 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk Subject: Re: FDP Directory Reorganisation Message-ID: <19990526201654.A15976@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990526013416.12841.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 11:34:15AM %2B1000 References: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990519214022.D60921@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990520095342.18541.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <19990520232510.A54603@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990523023158.105.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <19990524100236.V12185@lehman.com> <19990526013416.12841.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 11:34:15AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
[...]
> > 1. It's a "book"
> > 2. Printing is a "Sys Admin" topic.
> > 3. Printing is deemed to be important enough to have it's own top level
> > category as well.
> > 4. It explains how Windows hosts can print to printers attached to
> > FreeBSD boxes.
> >
> > This gives the end-user much more freedom when it comes to finding the
> > documentation they need.
>
> I have no problem with this -- but it was not spelled out in the
> proposal that I was commenting on, hence my repeated attempts to
> have the problem that I saw addressed.
S'cool. My fault for not being clear enough in the proposal. I'm actually
not that fussed about how the documents are installed for the user, as
long as it can be made flexible, and there are no artificial constraints
imposed by the repository structure.
> I am quite happy to see semantic distinctions internal to the
> documents determining their location in the source (where they
> are accessed by the documentation maintainers), so long as the
> organisation that is visible to users allows them to find things
> by criteria that make sense to those users. Your latest answer
> indicates that this will be done. Thanks.
Great. With a bit luck this'll get done this weekend.
N
--
There's some milk in the fridge about to go off. . . and there it goes.
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