On Thursday, May 15, 2025 12:45:10 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I don't have a good answer to your questions, I'm afraid, but one of the
> problems I see in the world of GNU/Linux is this tendency to have
> "per-distribution" documentation for thing which are not specific to
> a distribution,
+1
> as evidenced by the fact that Debian users often find
> the Arch wiki useful.
> I wish the Arch wiki and Debian wiki (and others, obviously) could
> *share* their effort somehow.
They can, even if the Arch wiki people would not want to cooperate (which I'm
not suggesting) -- Debian wiki pages on a subject could link to Arch wiki
pages when the Arch wiki page was considered better for some value of better.
If there are things overlooked in the Arch wiki page they could be added to
the Debian wiki page (if not to the Arch wiki page).
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