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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentating advanced portage feaetures in Gentoo Handbook
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:19:56
Message-Id: 4F0370B7.3080104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Documentating advanced portage feaetures in Gentoo Handbook by Sven Vermeulen
1 On 3.1.2012 19.51, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 >
3 > [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/docs/previews/hb-portage-advanced.xml
4 >
5 > The discussion however is if it is okay to document these things there or
6 > not. Some of the features are considered to be too "fragile" to be broadly
7 > documented (at least in a beginners resource like the Gentoo Handbook) and
8 > might cause eventual bugs to be closed as RESO:WONTFIX because the user used
9 > such a feature.
10 >
11
12 A quick read didn't seem like there would be something overly dangerous
13 or support nightmare producing there.
14
15 Regards,
16 Petteri