Re: Kmail offline

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:03 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:12, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:

I am not saying the documents are perfect. And I will stipulate that man
pages are an outdated form of documentation which should be abolished,
not updated.

Why abolish? If they are to be abolished, then there had better be a
usable alternative that is just as easily used put in their place. Info
files might be ok if one could ever figure out a reliable way to navigate
through the tree. A manpage is nice and simple, you just scroll up and
down to find what you want, if its in there. As for an alternative such
as DocBook, I have a lot of those that were on the FC2 box, and may be on
this one too, but I have yet, and with considerable frustration, to see a
single character displayed on my screen from one of those docbook files.
DocBook, as an executable file, does not exist in my $PATH, and it has no
manpage, none, nada. In other words, there (apparently) is no bridge
connecting a user of manpages that can convert him to a docbook reader.
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docbook files are xml and a lot of programs can make sense of them but
you are correct, there is no program, at least none that I am aware of,
that is called docbook. Many programs are more than capable of
opening/displaying docbook files such as web browsers and open office
and they can be 'transformed' into PDF files or HTML pages. Likewise,
utilities such as khelpcenter should be capable of rendering the
information in a docbook file (unverified). If you want more info on
docbook, go to wikipedia.org and look it up or simply go to
www.docbook.org
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The documentation is NOT there, and doubly so if you are trying to
troubleshoot a net connection that isn't working. Where then are you
going to find the info? That's what bugs me, everybody points at google,
but what if google isn't available because your net won't come up?

I repeat, fix the manpages by fixing my squawks above about the
definitions.
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the man pages provide a simple description of the various commands but
selinux is somewhat of a dense subject and the commands are somewhat
remote to someone that doesn't make much of an effort to understand
selinux concepts. There is rather extensive explanations on
fedoraproject.org...
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux
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No clue to lead me to them, and how was I to know I should have been
searching for 'lib'selinux. Surely all these 'tools' are not all in the
libselinux src archive? I see all sorts of rpms for the rest of selinux,
available as binary rpms... But, I'll have to hang my head and plead
guilty for giving up when there was no selinx-version.src.rpm to be
sucked.
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if you want to learn selinux, go through the above link - which probably
is the best selinux information that you will find anywhere on the web.
As Anne has discovered, the selinux list (also a Red Hat list) is a
place where you can get specific questions answered. Whining about the
man pages is a cop out.

Craig

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