Re: Bug#128852: doc-linux-text: Suggested addition to package: rank newbie pointers
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:15:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> retitle 128852 Ultra-newbie introductory documentation needed somewhere
> reassign 128852 general
> thanks
>
> I honestly have no idea where this documentation ought to go. doc-linux
> is not appropriate, as those packages contain documentation from the
> LDP. The doc-debian maintainer isn't convinced that it ought to go there
> either. install-doc is, as pointed out, rather large, and furthermore
> Priority: extra; the primary requirement is that whatever package
> contains this introductory documentation ought to be installed as
> standard.
>
> It sounds like a valid bug about the system in general that there should
> be a short bootstrapping document somewhere obvious; thus, at a loss for
> anything else to do with it, I'm going to reassign this bug to 'general'
> and ask for further discussion.
How about a README-new-to-linux in the root home folder? Because
that's where the new user ends up at first.
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