Bug#152845: debootstrap example
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:56:56AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > At 17:13 +0200 7/13/02, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > >If desired, I'll document this in the manual. I'd rather remove
> > >them entirely, however. Why would the user want to rebuild the
> > >tarball?
> > >
> >
> > Leave it to the user to decide if he wants to rebuild the tarball.
> > It is good the tell that the tool debootstrap exists and how to use it.
> >
> > Please document it in the manual.
> > Moving it to the Technical Info Chapter is IMHO an improvement.
>
> I'm not sure that this information is useful for anyone, which
> is why I'm hesitant to have it in the manual. Keeping useless
> information makes it harder to find the useful information.
>
> Thus, I'd like to hear a reason why the user would want to
> rebuild the tarball before I commit to keeping it documented
> herein.
>
> Matt
I think it should go away too. I suppose a person could want to
build their own debs.tar if the archive version had been left to get out
of date, and they needed to install on a non-networked machine. Rather
a corner case.
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