Re: A suggestion

Perhaps resurrecting and finalizing the /System/Index project would be 
worth the effort? That could reduce the number of packages that needed 
patches and such to work around FH assumptions in their code.

On 10. april 2013 03:30, Viola Zoltán wrote:
> I think, the original Gobo-developers no should begin the
> document-creation ("Gobo from scratch") at "zero", from "/dev/null"!
> Because this document almost finished! I think about the newest LFS
> Book! Absolutely enough, if the developers execute/implement the
> described steps in the LFS book, of course, PLUS (add to) the
> GoboLinux-specialitys! (The special gobo-scripts, boot scripts for
> ekzample, Compile and InstallPackage, etc). The LFS very good, need only
> complement/integrate only with the way, how can we placed all programs
> to the GoboLinux filesystem-hierarchy! This is for the developers - I
> think- no more as a cca 1 week. Of course, via this way comes only a
> commandline-distro, but I think, this is no problem, because the
> Gobo-fans are at least "power-users".
> I think, the developers no should make more developing on the GoboLinux,
> absolutely enough the original, latest 014.01 goboscripts. In this Gobo
> from scratch book they can/maybe presume/premise/suppose, that the
> reader of this book have an installed 014.01 gobosystem on a one
> partition of the HDD, for ekzample on the SDA3, and from this distro
> would like he/she create the new "GFS" distro to the other (for ekzample
> SDA5) partition, in CHROOT environment.
>
> Zoli
>
> 2013/4/10 Zbigniew <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>     2013/4/10, Liam Proven <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>
>      > I meant what I said. If I had to, say, document a piece of completely
>      > new and unfamiliar software, I would expect to spend as long writing
>      > it as exploring it. When I wrote a piece on how to set up a Linux
>      > machine as a small network server in about 1997, it took me about two
>      > months of experimentation and learning and two weeks of writing - for
>      > 10,000 words of documentation.
>
>     That's why I suggested, that the best would be to have the docs
>     written directly by creators of Gobo. They don't need to explore
>     anything; they still remember all the bits and bytes.
>
>      > To document the process of building that distro from scratch?
>      > Conservatively, 6 months' work.
>      >
>      > I am not a quick writer, but I know of much slower ones, too.
>
>     Well, take something opposite: to create decent computer game it may
>     take 3 months. Or even a year. The docs for the player will comprise -
>     say - 10-20 pages brochure, and surely it won't take 5 years to write
>     them.
>     --
>     regards,
>     Zbigniew
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