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On Mon, 30 May 2016 20:48:46 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > Have you read the emerge and portage man pages anytime in the last |
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> > five years? |
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> I tried to extract useful information from the emerge manpage a few days |
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> ago but it contained no useful information, manpages are written in |
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> moonspeak anyway. |
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Man pages are reference documents for those that already have a basic |
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understanding of the software. They document the various command options. |
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They are not tutorials, the handbook does a good enough job of that. |
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> I thought portage was just the file database, |
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You though wrong, that's the portage tree. Portage is the package |
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manager, it's the software installed by sys-apps/portage |
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> I tried to find an on-line wiki about |
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> emerge because that's how shit is documented in the 21st century but |
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> couldn't. |
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Man pages are written by the developers of the software, and the versions |
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installed match the software version - they should be considered |
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authoritative. The same cannot be said of a random wiki page that any |
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idiot can write or edit. |
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> I wish I could remember where I got the documentation I needed |
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> to configure the features list I'm using, it's been ages since I've |
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> messed with it... |
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You've already been told the answer to that... |
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-- |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like |
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I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go |
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away. I don't know why this works but it does." |
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Scott Adams, Dilbert comic |
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