On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:41:05AM +0200, Marc Blumentritt wrote: > 1.) What's a kernel, what is inside of it and why (userland vs. kernel)? > I read somewhere, that over 50% of the kernel are drivers. Why are they > in the kernel and what's the rest? What is an initrd and when do you > need it? As far as I know, the Linux kernel is not the only choice with > Gentoo (BSD, Darwin, ?). What's the difference, advantages, > disadvantages? I know this is quite general. > > 2.) What is behind system (of emerge system)? How does portage know, > what packages are in system? I know, that the profiles define these, but > how does it work? What's the impact of USE flags on the system packages? > This is something I always wanted to know, but never really looked for, > so if there is already a good doc about it, sorry for the spam. > > 3.) How to get rid of cruft files? I removed a lot of old packages, > which I do not use anymore. By chance I found many files belonging to > these deleted packages on my system, e.g. in /etc/env.d I found > 02distcc. Another example are old kernel modules in /lib/modules and > cleaning the portage tree. Are there good ways for finding these files?
Those are very good topics; it shouldn't be too difficult to find adequate
answers and add them to the repository.
> Just a thought: Some guides like the gcc upgrade guide are "quick
> solutions" to "specific problems". I think this fits quite good for the
> kbase, so perhaps all guides like this should be moved/transformed to
> the kbase?
On the contrary; when topics tend to grow, it might be a good sign to turn
them into guides. Likewise, whenever a guide exists that covers some topic,
the topic in the kbase should point to the guide.
Guides are more managed (documentation-wise) than kbase articles (the entire
GDP crew looks after them); they are also translated into several other
languages.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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