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LPC: Booting and systemd

LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 15, 2011 3:35 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: LPC: Booting and systemd by jcm
Parent article: LPC: Booting and systemd

systemd has very comprehensive documentation including man pages, dozens of blog posts covering many aspects and every distribution had its own quirks for sysvinit while systemd is standardized as much as possible. I am sure books will cover it too. What would you consider as better documentation?


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LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 15, 2011 18:17 UTC (Thu) by JEFFREY (subscriber, #79095) [Link]

IMHO Blog posts don't count as documentation. They are far too transient. Documentation should not require the use of web.archive.org.

AFAIK it's not documentation, if it's not distributed with the source.

Accurate man pages, and anything that `make install` (or whatever packaging system you use) puts in /usr{,/local}/share/doc *is* documentation.

LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 16, 2011 15:26 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Nonsense. Blog posts *are* documentation and man pages are reference documentation. systemd has both.

LPC: Booting and systemd

Posted Sep 16, 2011 16:39 UTC (Fri) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221) [Link]

As long as there is enough documentation to fix/diagnose problems when you're somewhere without an internet connection.

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