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From: rjlouro@×××××××.org
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] writing a doc about portage
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:09:03
Message-Id: 34566.193.137.203.230.1133874436.squirrel@rjlouro.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] writing a doc about portage by "Jan Kundrát"
1 > On Tuesday 06 of December 2005 10:34 Ricardo Loureiro wrote:
2 >> I'm currently doing an implementation of portage on a lab environment
3 >> as the final project of my graduation, and it involves putting
4 >> portage on a relational database and using it to calculate
5 >> dependencies, etc. As you may imagine, i'm pretty much re-writing
6 >> some portage parts, and I will have to write how portage works on the
7 >> final report.
8 >
9 > Just out of couriosity - are you working together with gentoo-portage
10 > folks?
11
12 No. I sent an email when I started the project to gentoo-dev back in
13 August[1] and it was clear that such project would not benefict gentoo
14 itself but something like gentoo-server. My decision was to not bother
15 klieber until I had something real, ehich I hope to have by the end of
16 January.
17
18 >
19 >> Since I was unable to find much info apart from the dev's handdbook,
20 >> is there interest in writing a doc for gentoo about this? I
21 >> understand portage is going to change, and much of how it works will
22 >> be outdated soon, but since I have to write it anyway and I have the
23 >> change of writing it in english, is there any interest from
24 >> gentoo-doc team on this?
25 >
26 > Sure ;-), new documents are always more than welcome. If you do that in
27 > GuideXML, we'll appreciate it, but any common text format is okay as well.
28
29 Cool, I'll do it in GuideXML (I used to be a pt-PT translator). Thanks on
30 the feedback.
31
32 [1]-http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/30631
33
34 Ricardo Loureiro
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