[Xastir] Undoing get-maptools

km5vy Tom Russo russo at bogodyn.org
Thu Mar 17 10:39:04 EDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 07:34:00AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> 
>    get-maptools.sh:
>    ****** 50 different Wiki pages!!! What?

There are many pages that are just version-specific deltas off of an old
Debian install HowTo, including all the Ubuntu version-specific pages.  I
am not entirely surprised that this propagated.

Unfortunately, the habit of making version-specific HowTos and not 
distro-specific HowTos with version-specific sections started very early in 
the wiki history, and stuck.  I did a bunch of that, too.  From one release
of a distro to the next, the only thing that usually changes is the name of
packages to add.

Fixing that proliferation of unnecessary duplication would be like work.

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