Re: [gentoo-dev] Just some Feedback

[Marcus Przyklink]

Jan Schubert wrote:
> Just installed gentoo (stage1-1.4) and i'm very satisfied. Your install
> guide is one of the best documentation i've ever seen - short and extensive.

full ACK. The gentoo documentation is really good.

> There are just some very small points to mention:
> - You should make very clear that tmpfs and devfs is needed while
> configuring the kernel (you should also mention, that tmpfs means
> "Virtual Memory FS")
> - you should include some more examples for CFLAGS in make.conf
> (Pentium4, Athlon)

I think you can find full explanation of the CFLAGS in the internet or
in the manpage of gcc, I like the short gentoo documentation. But maybe
a link to an online manpage of gcc would be good.

> And the most important thing: Why is there no vi(m) included in the
> base-system? For many advanced users this is the only usable editor, i
> had some problems using nano...

There is nothing like the only usable editor or such, some people like
joe, some pico/nano, some vim, some emacs. I think nano is quite a good
choice, small and easy to use. I'm too a vim-fan, but feel comfortable
with nano as standardeditor.

> I've seen, that some ebuilds are not at the edge of the time: Perl is
> still 5.6.1, but 5.8 is out for some weeks now; Gentoo-sources refers
> still to a 2.4.19-pre

Perl 5.8 is masked because of some incompatibleties. You can unmask 
it by editing /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and comment the
line with perl 5.8. And the kernelsources are 2.4.19 without pre here,
maybe you should do an emerge rsync.

Bye,
  Marcus

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