Better paths in documentation
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Sun Dec 14 03:34:29 UTC 2008
This was about changing references to mention I<pathbin> and friends
instead of the /usr/local/news default paths.
Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:
> I have just updated the POD documentation to mention inn.conf paths
> whenever it is possible.
>
> Note that I did not change checklist.pod and install.pod because I am
> not sure whether it is better to put <pathbin> & co in these files
> (except for the first instruction which explains how to use --prefix).
> I don't know; it can also be better for clarity and understanding the
> role of the paths set in inn.conf if these two files are using
> <path...>. Better sooner than later for they who install INN.
>
> What do you think about that?
I think changing checklist.pod and install.pod that way is a good idea for
exactly the reasons that you state. We may as well be consistent across
all of the documentation, including the install documentation.
I've created a ticket for this (#5).
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