A clueless newbie writes in
Ok, so I've installed Debian. I now have a huge amount of feedback on it;
since I can't really do much coding in my spare time, this seems the best
way I can help the Cause.
Where does this feedback go? a lot if it relates to certain packages; I
could go on about dselect for hours. But where? mailing lists? usenet?
is there a 'canonical' way to find the authors of a certain package?
On a related note, documentation for software is a major frustration;
different packages have their help info as:
* man pages
* info
* groff?
* text or html documents in /usr/doc
* text or html documents wherever the application installs
* perldoc
* internal documentation (available through menus or commands)
* more ???
Does it take a clueless newbie to point out how hopelessly confusing this
is to a clueless newbie?
Remember, folks. The next battle is going to be for the desktop.
(I know, I got it for free, I should shut up, roll up my sleeves and start
coding... if people can't figure out how something works, they should be
running redhat or another lesser distro anyway. Only girlies who would
need the docs in the first place would have trouble anyway, and they
should just try everything or give up and install an operating system
designed for obvious morons like themselves.)
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