Thierry de Coulon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:38:34 +0000:
> I'd just end with saying that I am neither a progammer, nor a learned system > manager, so some subtleties about flags and so escape my understanding. > However, being a teacher, I'll be happy toget back to student level and > ask questions here when necessary. Teacher... my Dad's a teacher. =8^) Something he said that has stuck, and proven oh so true, is that if you really want to learn something, try to teach it. It forces you to think about things from angles you never would have otherwise, and you /really/ learn the subject matter. As you become a regular here, you'll soon discover many of my mails are teaching based, rather than just answering a question. They can be 200 lines sometimes, and some don't like the style and filter me, but I've had others thank me for taking the time to explain something they never got, before. The chapters on the details of the ebuild format and etc you can skip or skim, tho it's useful to know a bit about it when one doesn't work, and helpful in terms of bug reporting. Other chapters, like the ones on additional portage features, USE flags, and managing configuration updates, cover as I said, stuff that's very basic to doing a Gentoo system "right", so skip them and you likely skip stuff that will make your job far easier. However, now that you mentioned that you /didn't/ stop with the installation guide before, and that you are a teacher, I'm guessing you already have that covered fairly well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
