On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 August 2012 22:15, Steve Wills <swills_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >>> On 23 August 2012 22:05, Steve Wills <swills_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Why can't one of those steps be to run "pkg-bootstrap"? >>> >>> Because the how-to may not be for a new system ;) >> >> The possibility of bad docs somewhere outside of our control, when we can (and I am actively working on) document(ing) pkgng for the handbook seems kinda thin. It's not even "Something's wrong on the Internet!" (http://xkcd.com/386/), it's "Something might some day be wrong on the Internet!" > > It isn't a problem of bad docs. Its a problem of the user following > some not-for-new-systems documentation and getting very confused when > they see "command not found.". It is practically the definition of > POLA. As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/freebsd-glossary.html#POLA-GLOSSARY So this isn't POLA, it's documentation. SteveReceived on Fri Aug 24 2012 - 00:55:29 UTC
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