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For those who complain about default portage behavior: |
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It changes constantly. If you can't accept the bleeding edge behavior, |
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you're probably using the wrong distro. There are always going to be |
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changes. Some you don't like, some you say "oh gosh, finally!". For |
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the latter, I cheer, for former, I work around. EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS is |
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your friend. |
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For those who complain about not knowing something was |
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added/removed/changed. Most packages do a decent job of providing good |
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ChangeLogs, either from Gentoo or upstream. It's not Gentoo's |
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responsibility to make you read them. It's like reading the fine print. |
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Yet you can't complain that it's not there if it's in the fine print. |
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Some say there should be more "announcements" for changes, yet others |
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say there are too many announcements and important stuff gets lost. One |
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man's trash is another man's treasure. There just doesn't exist a sweet |
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spot that will satisfy everyone. |
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For those who complain about man pages being too cryptic/incomplete/etc. |
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Man pages have pretty much always been designed to be reference manuals. |
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The key word is "reference". They are not guides, they are not |
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tutorials. They are more suited for "I know this library provides a |
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function to do *this* but I don't know the function's signature". They |
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are less suited for "I don't know how to do *this*". There are other |
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resources for the latter. And if there are not, that's not the fault of |
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the man page. But in my experience, and I'm sure I'm not alone on this, |
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most people who complain about man pages are those who don't bother, or |
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at least put *very* little effort, to *read* the man pages. |
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For those who complain "Why do I have to compile all this stuff to get |
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X?": Why are you using Gentoo? |
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For those who complain about bugs/regressions: Why do you use software? |
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For those who complain about software/features needed/unwanted/changed |
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in a way you disagree with: Where is your patch? |
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For those who have genuine technical questions; for those who can |
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provide answers to those questions w/o being overly critical; for those |
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who give back by submitting bug reports, patches, ideas, praise: Thank |
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you. |
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Gentoo is a rainbow with no end and no pot of gold. |
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-a |