Hi all, I made a new install the other week-end and I found a couple of strange things so I would like to help out. The only problem is that I am pretty newb so I can only point out small things but i would like to help. One big thing is that we now use eselect in a lot of cases.
In addition, I must say that we should have a couple of more sample files, .config, xorg.conf and so on. If we would like to get some new users, I think we should try to help them out a bit more. Just to get started. thanks, Nik, On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM, AllenJB <gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > The situation with the Gentoo Handbook is quite frankly getting beyond a > joke for those of us donating our time to help users. > > I have tried to bring up the issues on the docs team list but pretty > much get shot down and told everything is fine and dandy. > > For example, quoteth the Handbook at: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 > Most PC users should use the stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 stage3 archive. > > This results in users starting out with a version of portage that > doesn't understand EAPI-2. Guess what happens next. > > I personally would happily donate my time to working on the docs, if > only it didn't involve a markup language nobody else uses. I suggested a > closed wiki for official documentation, but was again shot down saying > that the existing team (who seem to be doing nothing) would need to > reskill and that the server admins dislike wikis. > > Is it really satisfactory that the official install documentation > results in a basically non-working install? > > > AllenJB > >
