On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <jmbsvice...@gentoo.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 25-07-2012 13:29, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson >> <titanof...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 07/24/2012 04:19 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>>> Another user opinion...it would be a significant improvement to >>>> the stage images and live discs to include the latest copy of >>>> the handbook, so that a network connection isn't required to >>>> access it. But that's probably a subject for a different >>>> thread. And I think that's at least three topics, now, this >>>> thread has touched on. >>>> >>> >>> The handbook has always been included. There may be a discrepancy >>> between the online version and the version included with the >>> disc, but that's because the online version is always current >>> where the stages can be a week or so behind. >> >> I've never spotted it. Good to know. :) > > AFAIK, the install-cd never provided the handbook. It used to be > manually added to the live-cd. > About adding it to the minimal-cd, we don't want to add manual steps > to the automated weekly builds for an installation process that > already requires network access - the GRP CD stopped being built a > long time ago.
Any objection to the handbook (or even gentoo docs as a whole) being in portage? 'emerge --searchdesc' doesn't turn it up, and I don't see it under app-doc/, so I don't think it's there. The problem I've tended to face is that on any install I do on new hardware, it's hit or miss whether or not the network will work after I reboot and work entirely within my installed environment. This is largely because I don't know which kernel options I need to leave enabled. That window inevitably requires me to have a separate machine with network access in order to walk any deeper through the handbook. -- :wq
