From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 6 19:33:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4151437B41B for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 19:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 87432 invoked by uid 3130); 7 Apr 2002 03:33:38 -0000 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:33:38 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney To: murray@stokely.org Cc: Tom Rhodes , keramida@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splitting the Handbook? (was: [a couple of new doc PRs]) Message-ID: <20020407033338.GC98779@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20020404062954.6607E2E827@mail.freebsdmall.com> <20020406221709.GA1181@hades.hell.gr> <20020406231126.GP5732@freebsdmall.com> <20020406190204.21cad8a8.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <20020407001148.GA8008@freebsdmall.com> <20020406200938.23dd2ef4.darklogik@pittgoth.com> <20020407012427.GB98779@electricjellyfish.net> <20020407032920.GC8008@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020407032920.GC8008@freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:29:20PM -0800, murray@stokely.org wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:24:28PM -0500, Garrett Rooney wrote: > > personally, it seems like the problem is in the definition of 'user' > > and 'sysadmin'. from my point of view, packages, building a kernel, > > staying up to date with cvsup, these are all 'sysadmin' type > > I agree with 2 of the 3 items you listed. The "building a kernel" > and "staying up to date with cvsup" chapters are currently in the > Administration part of the Handbook, but "packages" (Chapter 4) is in > the Getting Started / User's part. I mostly agree with the current > separation, I just want two separate books instead of two separate > parts in the same book. i can see the argument for leaving the information on packages in the users manual. it's still an admin type thing, but it's one that you can easily see an end user who just installs FreeBSD on their own machine using. and yes, i do agree that as we move forward, the guide likely should be split into a users manual and an admin's manual, if only to keep it from becoming unweildy. -garrett -- garrett rooney Remember, any design flaw you're rooneg@electricjellyfish.net sufficiently snide about becomes http://electricjellyfish.net/ a feature. -- Dan Sugalski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message