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From: Maurits Lamers <maurits@×××××××××××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Does anyone else find this misleading to the reader?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:34:17
Message-Id: 2BF8D7CA-B196-4972-A551-0D8352D0CAE7@student-kmt.hku.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-doc] Does anyone else find this misleading to the reader? by John Paine
1 As far as I know, this is a remnant of the original installation
2 method, including a "emerge system" step.
3 In this step, taking place after updating the portage tree, portage
4 is automaticly updated.
5
6 regards
7
8 Maurits
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11 Op 13-jul-2006, om 14:31 heeft John Paine het volgende geschreven:
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13 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6
14 >
15 > You are told in chapter 6 that if a new Portage version is
16 > available, to ignore it. This is incorrect and misleading to
17 > readers, and should be changed appropriately
18 >
19 > "If you are warned that a new Portage version is available and that
20 > you should
21 > update Portage, you should ignore it. Portage will be updated for
22 > you later on
23 > during the installation."
24 >
25 >
26 > I believe this has been overlooked and is incorrect. Portage /will
27 > not/ be updated automatically later on during the rest of the
28 > Gentoo installation. I'm not saying that portage wont be updated /
29 > after/ the installation with emerge -uD world,
30 >
31 > i'm stating that this part/wording in the handbook is not correct.
32 > Some person then marked it as closed because he/she thought their
33 > opinion was correct. (their not correct).
34 > I have brought this up on IRC many times, and I always here people
35 > talk about it as being a confusing/misleading statement that should
36 > be re-stated.
37 >
38 >
39 >
40 > Thanks for looking into it.
41 >
42 > John P.
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47 >