Installation Guide - FAQ and SysReqs

[Phil Bull]

Hi Matt,

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 14:46 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> Alternatively, rather than using entities, we could simply use bzr's
> merge features to pull in to a particular flavour those changes that
> are made to the "main" version of the document which are relevant to
> that flavour, and ignore those that aren't. This is a rather more
> complex method, in terms of practicalities, I think, but it is
> definitely worth considering if the guide is likely to deviate in any
> significant respects from one flavour to another.

Only a few of the sections should differ between flavours, so sticking
to entities would probably be simplest.

> Before any plan is finalised, we need to answer some basic questions
> about how the guide will be used. For example, will it be included in
> the basic Ubuntu installation (e.g. in yelp or khelpcenter), or will
> it be shipped in a separate package which is only present on the
> livecd and not in the desktop installation (a bit like the
> ubuntu-serverguide package is split into a separate package). If the
> latter, is it desirable to keep it in the same source package or
> branch as ubuntu-docs, or to have its own branch and source package?
> I'd tend to say that it should be in the same source package.

It should definitely be installed on the live CD, but perhaps only the
troubleshooting section should be included on the desktop installation.
Any ideas on how we could achieve this?

Thanks,

Phil

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