On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:50 +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote: > FWIW, I think that the general view has been that we cover software that > is either in Core or Extras, so a document on installing a third-party > product (Oracle/Mono/Whatever) may be out of scope, but I don't know if > that is a hard-and-fast rule. I think the best thing to do is open a > separate thread requesting clarification/discussion if this is still a > live issue. +1 AFAIK, Enterprise Linux documentation only covers the free stuff. There are a very few non-free bits in RHEL. To document them would imply we support them. Regardless, this is not a moot[1] point, and it's off- topic. Just like the Fedora Project, we cover only free software. Our first priority is to software that is in Core or Extras. Stand-alone docs that cover software not in Core or Extras is fine. Docs covering a subject area that has several choices will cover the choices in Core or Extra primarily. Choices that are outside of the project are noted as not being "supported by Fedora". I know there are people in the community who use non-free software on Fedora. Our reason for not documenting this usage is related to why developers won't support a system running a tainted kernel. We send our readers into a risky situation. The risk is they are using unsupported pieces that will make it hard or impossible to get help in fixing anything that is broken. Not a pretty situation for a production system. - Karsten [1] The term "moot point" is often misused, I think many of us got it from a Jesse Jackson skit on SNL many years ago. A moot point is one that is open for debate and could be disproved. It is not a point that is no longer worth discussing. -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
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