On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:01 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > > > > What am I missing? > > I'm thinking of the fact that there's no other piece of stuff in Fedora > > that can't be built or rebuilt entirely from a .src.rpm and assorted > > BuildRequires. If someone "in the know" @RH says "Shut up, nobody > > cares," that's good enough for me. :-) > > This seems empty form to me but I ain't @RH anymore. > > I keep envisioning only two use cases: > > 1) Developer -- eveything local from a CVS checkout, even if I don't > have CVS write permission. > > 2) End user, aka read-only -- install the RPM's and yelp away. > > What am I missing? 3) People who want to use the FDP structure to write their own documentation. They don't necessarily care a whit about our content, so CVS access and associated is not valuable. Having a complete document building environment is. I don't know that this was an FDP intention from the start, but the fact is people use our DocBook templates. When we get PDF working, I expect we'll see that number increase, mainly because we then have the most complete DocBook toolchain that is also 100% free. I think it is a good idea to have a common documentation infrastructure RPM that is separate from the content packages. Interacting like this? 1. Document package, foo-en.rpm -- stand-alone, has all build targets and copy of XML for Yelp et al. 2. Document source package, foo-en.src.rpm -- requires doc infrastructure package to build, this package is mainly XML, Makefile, and images. 3. Document infrastructure package -- all that you need to build one of the .src.rpms, to roll your own docs packages, or to roll your own documentation set. > Quaid? Final answer? As long as I have addressed every point? I do think I have. - Karsten -- 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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