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Hi, |
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I think things are quite quiet here at the moment. Holyday times etc :) |
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It is possible that they haven't read it yet :) |
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regards |
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Maurits |
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Op 14-jul-2006, om 10:31 heeft Marc Blumentritt het volgende geschreven: |
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> Hi, |
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> Marc Blumentritt schrieb: |
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>> |
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>> Any thoughts about this? |
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>> I think, both (handbook and guide) should be made consistent with |
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>> each |
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>> other, with the handbook including some more informations about |
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>> why you |
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>> should do this and that. |
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>> |
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> |
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> one week and no answer, so perhaps I did something wrong? If I |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> Installer? |
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> |
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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 |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> 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, |
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> because I |
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> think, the handbook should contain every Informationen about |
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> 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 |
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> 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, |
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> 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 |
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> 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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