Interesting points, but On 1/7/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: > > > > I'm just of the mind that we really should encourage it's use, while > > encouraging people to also understand what's happening under the > > hood. > > > ...and how do you suggest that should be done? There is tons of documentation > available for user to read and know what is happening under the hood but no > one wants to RTFM. Even this problem that you faced has been clearly > explained along with its solution in "man emerge". How should Gentoo force a > user to read the documentation and the man pages?
So, there's documentation that specifically explains that packages can be split, and this can cause a conflict? I tried to find that, after I resolved the problem, but to no avail. There is documentation on conflicts in general. Besides, this problem I ran into wasn't much of a problem, as I was able to figure it out quite easily without documentation. Personally, I dont' need most of gentoo's documentation, as I've found it quite easy to use, after learning and reading about a few basic things. But not everyone does. > > > > > I like both that my car just works, and I don't have to know how the > > pistons go up and down, but that I can also look under the hood if I so > > desire. > > > Thinking on the wrong lines again and what you want can never happen, at least > with Gentoo; because Gentoo does not give you a working car at all. It just > gives you spare parts (ebuilds & packages), books to read (documentation) and > a tool box (portage). Then it tells you to go ahead and make your own car. It > totally depends on you whether you want to make it a blazing fast Ferrari or > a classy Limo. To achieve anything of that sorts you *HAVE TO* know how the > pistons go up and down. If you don't read and just put together the pieces in > a random order then you might make a moving car but it will not be a working > one. Moral of the story? To have full control, you gotta know how things work > inside the engine :) Well actually, it could happen. If I had a menu of packages to be installed during some sort of automated install process, then I'm still customizing my system the way I want. So once again, you absolutely *CAN* have gentoo flexibility with easy of install, as an example. I never was referring to install, but that could be cleaned up too. :) You can think of this like a robotics assembly line that will make anything that your heart desires FOR YOU. Then, you can go and look at the technical manuals to find out what happened. > > Regards, > Abhay > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
