Suggestion for a new Download page

[Todd]

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Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Raphael Clifford <raphael at clifford.net>:
>> Which I read as a strong advise to give these documents better
>> titles.  They actually are for people who don't know anything about
>> apt/yum yet and provides step-by-step information to them.
>
> Probably true...  No one has suggested a better title yet that I've
> liked.  Maybe something like "Installing and using yum for Fedora
> Legacy with Red Hat Linux 7.2" but that gets kind of long, no?

Sorry to only respond to one small part of this thread, I know there's
a lot of other things being discussed here.  But just to point out
that since yum configs are version independent, it's not necessary to
say "Installing and using yum for Fedora Legacy with Red Hat Linux
7.2."  You can simply say "Installing and using yum for Fedora
Legacy," can't you?

If a potential user can't or won't do a little thinking on their own
and pick the proper version for their RH system, how much more hand
holding can a few volunteers here do?

The instructions on that page would tell you to grab yum for your RH
version from download.fedoralegacy.org and then how to issue the
commands to make it automatically update.

I suppose that technically, if someone wanted to, a shell script could
be written that would go out and grab the latest yum and configure it
for the user, sort of like what Ximian used to do (and still does, now
that I look) with their gnome releases.  See an example here:

    http://www.ximian.com/products/desktop/download.html

It seems to me that most -- if not all -- of the required info is
already on the site thanks to Eric and Jonas (and all those who
contributed ideas or other documentation).  But maybe I've not been
following this thread closely enough to understand exactly what
changes are being suggested.  If so, sorry for the interruption, I'll
go back to lurking and *trying* to make some time to do QA on those
apt packages...

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