[ale] SUSE best practices

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

yoU nix their reasoning?  :p

I don't get why one would expect them to detail the tool they say  shouldn't be used.   They didn't say it can't be used - they said they weren't going to tell how to use  it.   My assumption on reading this was they thought if you preferred the other tool you already knew how to use it so they weren't going to explain it.

I often document things the way I did them and leave out all the other possible ways to do them.    Doing otherwise makes my already verbose documents even more verbose.

Of  course we live in a politically correct world where people choose to take offence at anything no matter how it was intended.

[CONDESCEND MODE]
That's UNIX to you, son!
[/CONDESCEND MODE]

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Niel Bornstein
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:54 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] SUSE best practices

To be fair, this is in an appendix to a best practices document.
suse_register itself is documented in other places, like
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3030847

That said, you're right that it's a rather condescending note. I'll add a doc bug, and if you guys have any other questions about SUSE products I'm happy to answer.

On 07/27/2016 12:41 PM, Brian Stanaland wrote:
> The following comment was found in the SUSE documentation for SLES 11.
> 
> /NOTE: YaST Registration/
> 
> We are deliberately not giving the syntax to use suse_register. If it 
> is not something you already know, you should use YaST.
> 
> https://www.suse.com/documentation/suse-best-practices/securitymodule/
> data/securitymodule.html
> 
> 
> This isn't very linux-like of them. A co-worker joked that it's very 
> Unix-like.
> 
> I can see not wanting to get into the details of suse_register in this 
> particular guide. But I'd expect a reference to more details at least.
> 
> --Brian
> 
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> 
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