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AllenJB wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting beyond a |
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> joke for those of us donating our time to help users. |
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> I have tried to bring up the issues on the docs team list but pretty |
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> much get shot down and told everything is fine and dandy. |
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> For example, quoteth the Handbook at: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 |
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> Most PC users should use the stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 stage3 archive. |
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> This results in users starting out with a version of portage that |
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> doesn't understand EAPI-2. Guess what happens next. |
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> I personally would happily donate my time to working on the docs, if |
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> only it didn't involve a markup language nobody else uses. I suggested a |
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> closed wiki for official documentation, but was again shot down saying |
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> that the existing team (who seem to be doing nothing) would need to |
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> reskill and that the server admins dislike wikis. |
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> Is it really satisfactory that the official install documentation |
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> results in a basically non-working install? |
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> AllenJB |
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I always use the x86 Quick install guide [1] I did an amd64 install |
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using it and can not recall changing anything. How about each arch |
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maintaining their own Quick install guide and for more in depth |
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questions point users to irc or the forums and put the handbook in the |
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archives for historical reference if no one wants to keep it current. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml |
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David Abbott (dabbott) |
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Gentoo PR |
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Gentoo trustee |
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