Bug 31979

Summary:	Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions Suffers From the Here Syndrome
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Steven Elling <ellingsw+20942>
Component:	Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions Here Syndrome Patch

Description Steven Elling 2003-10-25 09:40:20 UTC

The Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions suffers from the 'Here Syndrome'.  Some parts 
of all the Gentoo documentation should be reworked to make them more suitable for printing 
or offline viewing. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
 



More details on the 'Here Syndrome' are available in the docment "Style guide for online 
hypertext" (http://www.htmlhelp.com/design/style/).  Specifically read the section "Style guide 
for online hypertext". 
 
The above document was actually based on the document "Style Guide for Online Hypertext" 
(http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/).

Comment 1 Steven Elling 2003-10-25 09:42:23 UTC

Created attachment 19771 [details, diff]
Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions Here Syndrome Patch

This is a patch to cure the x86 version of the install instructions.

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-26 05:48:57 UTC

Patch looks great. I've just removed the "1.0" from the "Gentoo Linux 1.0
Init" since it would confuse readers (Linux 1.0 is kinda old). Since the
version information is not important, I just removed it.

Committed. Thanks for the patch :)