Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e system - output info/errors to log

[Dale]

Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2010-04-18 1:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Understand what the gcc upgrade guide is:
>>
>> a quick simple guide for user who don't know tool chains inside out, that give
>> the minimal sequence of commands that is GUARANTEED to NOT leave the user in
>> the lurch. It's not the minimum possible sequence of commands to do the
>> upgrade, because most users don't know how to tell the difference. Here's the
>> logic:
>>
>> "If we imply that you should merge -e world with a gcc upgrade, my inbox will
>> not fill with bugs from users who don't know the inner guts of the toolchain".
>>
>> The Guide is not the best possible guide that can be. It is the guide that
>> causes the least support questions from users.
>>
> This is the second time that someone has said something like this with
> respect to the official Gentoo Guides (the other was the kernel upgrade
> guide, and its recommendation to use ''make menuconfig instead of 'make
> oldconfig')...
>
> It would be nice if there were a formal/official place to find 'Advanced
> User Guides'... ;)
>
>

I think that is where this mailing list comes in.  Here, you can say 
what you have, what you want in the end then someone can tell you a way 
to get there.  Usually, you will get more than one way and have to pick 
your poison.  I agree with what Alan said tho. The guides have to be a 
work every time for every one that reads it.

Dale

:-)  :-)