On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Thorsten Fischer wrote:

> I discovered Gentoo Linux a few days ago and find it's port concept
> to be very fascinating. As I am a frequent writer for the german
> Linux Magazin, I decided to prepare an article about that distribution
> for one of the next issues -- after I get the 'build installation' 
> cross-compiled for my laptop =)

Wonderful! :)

> First, I would appreciate anything pointed out that is important to know
> about gentoo and that is not covered on the website or the faq. I know 
> this is quite an unspecific question, but as I do not know what is _not_
> in the faq, i can't get more specific ;) User reports would be appreciated
> as well, bad ones as well as positive ones, as I would prefer a balanced
> view on gentoo.

It's important for you to know that the "Portage User Guide" is currently
out-of-date.  We now have a command called emerge which should be used instead
of rsync and ebuild, and takes care of automatically resolving dependencies
using digraphs and can do other neat things.  We should have updated Portage
User Guide documentation within a week.

Right now, everyone is working hard to get everything ready for Gentoo Linux
1.0_rc5.  When 1.0_rc5 is released, we will also have a full ISO CD image
available, in addition to our normal build and system snapshots.

Let me know if you have any other questions.  In the meantime, I'll try to set
aside some time to update the Gentoo Linux documentation.

Thanks for writing an article about Gentoo Linux! :)

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.