how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?

[David Boles]

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:52 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>>> all i'm suggesting is that it took an inordinately long time to
>>> figure out what should have been a two-minute exercise.  i'm
>>> guessing that, in most cases, readers aren't interested in a
>>> long-winded overview of things -- they just want to know what
>>> commands to run to get something done, which is all i wanted in
>>> the first place.
>>>
>>> in short, what people might want is a fedora "cookbook" with
>>> tight, concise recipes that just plain work, out of the box.  if
>>> they choose to read up later on the underlying operations, then
>>> that's their choice.
>> A wonderful example of that is http://www.stanton-finley.net/ which
>> is clear, concise and the content works every time and, for the most
>> part, still does. Too bad he went to the Ubuntu scheme of things
>> after FC5. Ric
> 
>   i will (sort of) agree with you.  yes, finley's website had/has
> piles of cool advice on how to do things.  my only beef with it is
> that it is simply too verbose.  here's an example -- how to install
> yumex:
> 
> http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Yumex
> 
>   sure, that explanation is correct but, man, it's wordy.  what's
> wrong with just saying:  "as root, run
> 
>   # yum -y install yumex"
> 
>  seriously, how many times do you need to be told to open a terminal
> and type "su"?  yes, i realize that's being annoyingly picky, but why
> take 15 lines to say what can be said just as accurately in two?


It's all part of the dumbing down that Linux is going through.

The Infinite monkey theorem.  ;-)
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  David
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