[gentoo-doc] Re: Gentoo Handbook versus x86 Quick Install Guide

[Marc Blumentritt]

Hi,

Marc Blumentritt schrieb:
>
> Any thoughts about this?
> I think, both (handbook and guide) should be made consistent with each
> other, with the handbook including some more informations about why you
> should do this and that.
>

one week and no answer, so perhaps I did something wrong? If I offended
in my post anyone, than sorry, I did not intend  this in any way.

On the other hand, if you all think, that it is just not worth to answer
 to my post, because of the insignificant content of it, I try to
convince you that this is not the case ;-)

Ok, why did I post about these differences in Handbook and Quick Installer?

I'm using Gentoo since Release 2005.0 and it was the documentation and
the step-by-step installation, which pushed me over to Gentoo. Why?
Because I wanted to learn more about how Linux is working and with
Gentoo I could (and still can) learn a lot! Before Gentoo I never
compiled anything before. I did not know anything about this mysterious
Toolchain and gcc. OK, I knew, that a compiler was creating binaries
from source code, but that's all. This changed by working with Gentoo. I
was one of the guys, who happily broke thier system with the gcc-3.4
upgrade (because I missed the upgrade guide). After resurrecting my
system, I decided to learn more about this Toolchain. I stumbled over a
lot of posts on the Forums, which were promoting "emerge -e system &&
emerge -e system && emerge -e world && emerge -e world" or
"emerge-wrappers" scripts for upgrading your system after changes of the
toolchain. For some time I believed, this was the way to go. But
recently I read in different places about opposing opinions, so I again
started to look for some official Gentoo guides containing anything
about this topic. This was the first time I read the Qick Install Guide
and I was surprised, that it stated more small informations than the
Handbook.

So here comes the answer to my own question: I wrote my post, because I
think, the handbook should contain every Informationen about installing
and maintaining yor Gentoo system. And this should be done with some
background explanations. The handbook is already great (really, thank
you all for this great guide), but the Quick Install guide contains more
informations about two topics (changing compile options and upgrading
your system), which are crucial. I wrote about this in my first post
without all my background thoughts you just (hopefully) read, because I
did not want to bore you with them, so I will stop right now!

Thanks for reading and any comments are welcome (I hope, there are some).
Regards,
Marc


P.S.: I'm still looking for more informations about toolchain handling
in Gentoo...
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