On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > by the way, the above is still not annoyance-free: > > OK.... > > So, I gather from all of this that the existing documentation, > links, and whatever doesn't measure up to what you need or expect. > Would that be a fair summary? > > Is the question then, how can documentation be improved for the > average user? all i'm suggesting is that it took an inordinately long time to figure out what should have been a two-minute exercise. i'm guessing that, in most cases, readers aren't interested in a long-winded overview of things -- they just want to know what commands to run to get something done, which is all i wanted in the first place. in short, what people might want is a fedora "cookbook" with tight, concise recipes that just plain work, out of the box. if they choose to read up later on the underlying operations, then that's their choice. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
