-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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. Yeah. It did take a few minutes to find the importation and edit the files to fit. The actual downloading, which I do not really need, took about one and one half hours to get the the updates and build the new iso. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkdymJEACgkQAO0wNI1X4QHHiACdEiNH6OHuMjkdwCmizwOzkKHt CH0An2IzW+QLk4aK7J07CPi+Kr2wWdjk =BSGm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
