From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Cc: YP docs mailing list <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [docs] [PATCH] brief-yoctoprojectqs: shorten and clarify required host packages
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:28:48 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32fef96c-4f59-cdc8-0b34-4a8303742975@crashcourse.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fb855e4-3155-4e57-b9ca-34c56c0de58f@cherry.de>
On Wed, 19 Nov 2025, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> On 11/19/25 5:15 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > what about "relatively recent"? that leaves a lot of wiggle room.
> >
>
> Not really. Don't forget that people can still read the documentation for
> older unsupported releases today. What is "relatively recent" today isn't
> something we supported back then and that shouldn't be something we should let
> the user be confused about.
ok, i'll just word it as "running a supported Linux distribution",
and that is expanded on in the next section. we're not saying that
they *must* be running a supported distro, only that the examples on
this page are assuming a supported distro.
rday
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-19 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-19 13:01 [PATCH] brief-yoctoprojectqs: shorten and clarify required host packages Robert P. J. Day
2025-11-19 16:04 ` [docs] " Quentin Schulz
2025-11-19 16:15 ` Robert P. J. Day
2025-11-19 16:19 ` Quentin Schulz
2025-11-19 16:28 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
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