Re: Ark Linux packaging rules

Hi,

On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:52, Pupeno wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 13:01, Joan Sanfeliu wrote:
> > It's me who was working on an RPM-HOWTO, i finally have corrected some
> > issues and i'm attaching it here for you guys to review it, maybe we
> > could join both documents into one?
>
> No, I don't think so, becuase they have very specific diferent targets.
> Your document is for people to learn how to make RPMs, everybody who
> doesn't know how to make RPM should read your document (even when not
> making RPMs for Ark) while my document is a set of rules for which every
> Ark RPM should apply, they're complementary documents, but diferent (your
> document should be explanatory, mine should be strict).
> Now, what we should do is to be sure there aren't inconsistencies between
> documents and we should share the styles to make both of them look the
> same. We should even interlink between them, like, in your document, it is
> adviced to make the description blah blah and mandatory to be an Ark Linux
> packaged like explaned in the Ark Linux Packaging Rules chapter 3.1, and I
> could add "For more information consult the Ark Linux Packaging How To",
> etc and both documents should be in the Ark Linux Development
> Documentation.

The idea of interlink both documents and make references to each other sounds 
good, i'll check my doc to adapt it to this.

> > What do you think Pupeno?
>
> I have just taken a fast look to it and it seems nice...
> One thing, when formating the document, try to use styles, Like "Standard"
> "Document Title", "Heading 1", "Heading 2" like I did in my document
> (latter we should use the same fonts (that is, the same style) and the
> documents will look similar.

Sure, makes sense to have both documents consistent, i'll resend a new version 
ASAP.

regards,
joan.