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? > > 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... -- 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
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