Re: Idea : common dir and tree (Rep:Re: Why not create packages?)

["Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>]

On Jul 21,  9:57am, Stein Gjoen wrote:
> Subject: Re: Idea : common dir and tree (Rep:Re: Why not create
packages?)
>
> Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "S" == Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@mail.nyx.net> writes:
> >
> >     S> I suggest we comply with the standards : /usr/share/doc/HOWTO
> >
> > Agreed.   And doc/FAQ and doc/GUIDES, but doc/HOWTO/mini
>
> I was under the impression that we were going to remove the
> distinction between HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs. Why then keep that
> old sub directory? Now that ./doc is positioned below ./share
> I would have thought this is an excellent opportunity to remove
> old cruft.
>
> At the same time we should try to decide on the place for
> other formats. A suggestion to star the ball rolling
>
> /
>   usr
>     share
>        HOWTO     - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
>          ascii   - same HOWTOS but as plain text
>          PDF     - same HOWTOS but as PDF
>          PostScript
>          SGML
>        GUIDES    - the Guides in HTML format
>          ascii
>          PDF
>          PostScript
>          SGML
>
> What about the FAQs? Are they still available as plain text only?

No.

>From the handful of FAQs we have available (http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/)
5 are in HTML and 9 are in plain text (only).

	Ferg

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