From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E4813829C for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 07:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0745314258; Tue, 31 May 2016 07:50:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE74721C01D for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 07:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1b7eRw-00050B-Cz for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 May 2016 07:50:52 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 503E64643C6 for ; Tue, 31 May 2016 08:50:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 08:50:44 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin. Message-ID: <20160531085044.10fe50e7@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <574CDF6E.5010609@verizon.net> References: <5749C1AE.5020905@verizon.net> <20160528111929.503f9bbd@sepulchrave.remarqs> <5749D00C.4030408@gmail.com> <5749E469.7020601@gmail.com> <5749E832.1030404@gmail.com> <5749F761.7020803@googlemail.com> <20160528215322.12a267c2@digimed.co.uk> <574ADCCF.9000602@verizon.net> <20160529221355.700d4194@digimed.co.uk> <574CDF6E.5010609@verizon.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2-143-g31a9c5 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/wOCR/uWbFH5NBYtIIFNpO7O"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-smarthost03b-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 02f08268-7269-43a0-ad7e-cf87d33922a3 X-Archives-Hash: 1e5c7bcdac2af66e8c92edd8e11a8ee5 --Sig_/wOCR/uWbFH5NBYtIIFNpO7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 30 May 2016 20:48:46 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Have you read the emerge and portage man pages anytime in the last > > five years? =20 >=20 > I tried to extract useful information from the emerge manpage a few days > ago but it contained no useful information, manpages are written in > moonspeak anyway. Man pages are reference documents for those that already have a basic understanding of the software. They document the various command options. They are not tutorials, the handbook does a good enough job of that. > I thought portage was just the file database, You though wrong, that's the portage tree. Portage is the package manager, it's the software installed by sys-apps/portage > I tried to find an on-line wiki about > emerge because that's how shit is documented in the 21st century but > couldn't. Man pages are written by the developers of the software, and the versions installed match the software version - they should be considered authoritative. The same cannot be said of a random wiki page that any idiot can write or edit. > I wish I could remember where I got the documentation I needed > to configure the features list I'm using, it's been ages since I've > messed with it... You've already been told the answer to that... --=20 Neil Bothwick "Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does." Scott Adams, Dilbert comic --Sig_/wOCR/uWbFH5NBYtIIFNpO7O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAldNQlQACgkQum4al0N1GQPSOgCdFMiP++sFq50X1UH09vyal/UT kwQAoLHMD4RQx3OO/88etOtGrgJchkDb =K8J3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/wOCR/uWbFH5NBYtIIFNpO7O--