I think that in the limit, it would be ideal that every piece of
software--no matter how obscure--would have sufficiently extensive
documentation to cover every single corner case of its operation (and I
want a pony, while I'm making impossible wishes :P)

I humbly recommend that the official documentation be structured as a wiki
to facilitate this end. If someone wants to publicly document how to do
something, even if it will only be useful to them at the end of the day, I
think doing so is still a worthwhile effort since chances are that person's
experience isn't so unique that no one else can benefit from the knowledge
gained.

-Jude

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 AM, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:11:54PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:13:09PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
> > >
> > > My point is that if you need to care about boot loaders (or
> > > recompiling the kernel, or shrinking/extending a couple of
> > > partitions), then you should know exactly what you are doing, or be
> > > ready to accept the consequences, or refrain from doing anything :)
> >
> > My point is that it should be easy to learn what it is you're doing.
> >
>
> I got your point and I mostly agree with the necessity of producing
> useful documentation. Just I don't see why the official documentation
> of a distribution (something like the Debian Reference) should include
> a guide on how to recover your system when you have messed up things
> with a specific bootloader, e.g. LILO, which is something extremely
> rare to happen to 99.99% of the typical users :)
>
> My2Cents
>
> KatolaZ
>
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