Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

[james <garftd@verizon.net>]

On 08/19/2016 06:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> This packages are now up for grabs:
> app-crypt/efitools
> app-crypt/pesign
> app-doc/linux-kernel-in-a-nutshell
> dev-util/cgvg
> dev-util/kup
> dev-util/xxdi
> net-misc/bti
>
>
>
app-doc/linux-kernel-in-a-nutshell

is quite interesting. I went to greg's site, looked around and built 
this package. It shows up, in chapter form under /usr/share.
I used 'elogv' to look at the directional output. Scant. So
I'm not sure how to discover the gui/tools one would used, other
and manually looking at the chapters one at a time. I quick look at the 
gentoo wiki revealed little how to access this or other /usr/share/
documents; perhaps I have missed the obvious reference pages on those 
documentation systems?

Sure, it's an old doc, but it could be useful?
I bring this up as maybe a tie-in doc to the GSoC kernel build work
that is currently being performed. [1] Personally, with gentoo being a 
strong embedded distro, and the IoT movement bringing in lots of new 
hardware to the linux world, I think these old documents are still 
valuable for the learning the basics process, particularly related to 
small and minimized gentoo systems.

As such, I am willing to help, but, first I think a comprehensive 
discussion on documentation on gentoo to tie in all the new, wonderful 
additions in the gentoo wiki, to some/most of the traditionally 
available documentation sources, is warranted. Decide what to keep and 
integrate those resoureces so that they 'flow' one to another for the 
gentoo community. There are also, many new documentation resources on 
github and similar sites, so those need to be 'integrated' too. A 
pattern or template for devs to follow possible?



[1] 
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas/kernelconfig

hth,
James