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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> The Gentoo Release Engineering team is pushing us to remove stage1 and |
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> stage2 references from the Gentoo Handbook. They are getting too many errors |
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> because the user is not able to fully comprehend the implications of a |
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> stage1 or stage2 installation. |
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Huh? What? |
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In which case, how would someone new to Gentoo do a Stage 1/2 install? |
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Actually, I don't understand the request at all, since it makes no sense |
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(atleast from this email :p). |
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I installed Gentoo from Stage 1, following the handbook. I had *no* |
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issues. I'm sorry, but removing portions of the handbook just because |
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there are users who won't read (I know, I had a friend who goofed up 4 |
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Gentoo installs because he was lazy to read the handbook) is *not* a |
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reason to remove perfectly correct and easy to understand documentation. |
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> This does surprise me, either because it seems rather simple to me, or |
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> because I don't understand it myself (in which case we need(ed) better |
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> information regarding the subject). |
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As it surprises me. In case this does happen, What do they(we) plan to |
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do for newbies wanting to do a Stage 1/2 install? |
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BTW, it so happened that I met Andrew Cowie (Operational Dynamics, |
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Sydney) the other day here and we were discussing Gentoo. He felt that a |
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strong point that Gentoo has and others don't is that you get to |
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actually see the things as they happen. You actually see bootstrapping. |
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And that is a valid point. Removing references from the handbook takes |
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the oppurtunity away of learning all that the first time you install |
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Gentoo. |
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Anyone from releng here who can clarify why they need this done? TIA |
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Regards, |
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Shyam Mani | <fox2mike@g.o> |
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