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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:26:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811042026.54971.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811040956s620784a8w17bbcc212b14651c@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 19:56:41 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> By the way, certain parts of Portage are very scarcely document, are
> they not? For examples, the FEATURES only have quick explanations in
> make.conf.example, as far as I know (and I did search for more
> complete explanations).

Have you read all the important man pages, in their full excruciating detail?

/usr/share/man/man1/ebuild.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man5/ebuild.5.bz2
/usr/share/man/man5/make.conf.5.bz2
/usr/share/man/man5/portage.5.bz2


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03  2:08 [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java boslists
2008-10-03  2:30 ` Dale
2008-10-03  2:54   ` boslists
2008-10-03  2:49 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2008-10-03  2:58   ` boslists
2008-10-04 11:22     ` b.n.
2008-10-04 11:54       ` boslists
2008-10-04 16:48         ` Dale
2008-10-03  2:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-04 14:16 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-04 15:23   ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-04 17:56     ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-04 18:26       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-11-04 18:47         ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-05 15:16     ` Willie Wong
2008-11-05 15:27       ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-06 15:24       ` Joshua Murphy

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