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Hi, |
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Marc Blumentritt schrieb: |
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> Any thoughts about this? |
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> I think, both (handbook and guide) should be made consistent with each |
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> other, with the handbook including some more informations about why you |
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> should do this and that. |
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one week and no answer, so perhaps I did something wrong? If I offended |
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in my post anyone, than sorry, I did not intend this in any way. |
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On the other hand, if you all think, that it is just not worth to answer |
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to my post, because of the insignificant content of it, I try to |
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convince you that this is not the case ;-) |
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Ok, why did I post about these differences in Handbook and Quick Installer? |
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I'm using Gentoo since Release 2005.0 and it was the documentation and |
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the step-by-step installation, which pushed me over to Gentoo. Why? |
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Because I wanted to learn more about how Linux is working and with |
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Gentoo I could (and still can) learn a lot! Before Gentoo I never |
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compiled anything before. I did not know anything about this mysterious |
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Toolchain and gcc. OK, I knew, that a compiler was creating binaries |
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from source code, but that's all. This changed by working with Gentoo. I |
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was one of the guys, who happily broke thier system with the gcc-3.4 |
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upgrade (because I missed the upgrade guide). After resurrecting my |
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system, I decided to learn more about this Toolchain. I stumbled over a |
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lot of posts on the Forums, which were promoting "emerge -e system && |
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emerge -e system && emerge -e world && emerge -e world" or |
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"emerge-wrappers" scripts for upgrading your system after changes of the |
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toolchain. For some time I believed, this was the way to go. But |
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recently I read in different places about opposing opinions, so I again |
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started to look for some official Gentoo guides containing anything |
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about this topic. This was the first time I read the Qick Install Guide |
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and I was surprised, that it stated more small informations than the |
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Handbook. |
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So here comes the answer to my own question: I wrote my post, because I |
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think, the handbook should contain every Informationen about installing |
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and maintaining yor Gentoo system. And this should be done with some |
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background explanations. The handbook is already great (really, thank |
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you all for this great guide), but the Quick Install guide contains more |
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informations about two topics (changing compile options and upgrading |
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your system), which are crucial. I wrote about this in my first post |
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without all my background thoughts you just (hopefully) read, because I |
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did not want to bore you with them, so I will stop right now! |
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Thanks for reading and any comments are welcome (I hope, there are some). |
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Regards, |
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Marc |
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P.S.: I'm still looking for more informations about toolchain handling |
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in Gentoo... |
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