On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Personally, I don't see the value for an installer package, when you do > have net access, you can also use the online version, right? If you > insist it'd be useful, this bug should then probably be reopened and > reassigned to wnpp as an RFP (Request For Package).
There are some cases whenm having the full version local is useful, for example for people using a portable, or for classroom use, where usage is intense. Since it is a document useful also for novice, that is possible do not know how to use wget, giving them a script to download it just by invoking it. (it could also choose automatically teh best mirror ...). An idea for this and many other documentastions that are present on the main would be makink, beside main contrib and non-free also a "documentation" section, containing the "general" documentation not relative to a single version of the programs included [that would remain in main/docs] . This section, similarly to non-free could be on not be present on the CD distributions, or better: it could contain either the full package or just the downloader script, accorting the option chosen by the producer of CD (som, for example, if after all binaries there are for example 50 MB of space on the media, one [or possibly even a smart cd imager script] could choose the documents to include to fit that space, leaving for the others just the downloader. Putting this in a non-main section would also avoid the "stable" problem, allowing to add updated version of the document at any time, without waiting for the next offical release ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
