On 2010-04-18 1:56 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Understand what the gcc upgrade guide is: > > a quick simple guide for user who don't know tool chains inside out, that > give > the minimal sequence of commands that is GUARANTEED to NOT leave the user in > the lurch. It's not the minimum possible sequence of commands to do the > upgrade, because most users don't know how to tell the difference. Here's the > logic: > > "If we imply that you should merge -e world with a gcc upgrade, my inbox will > not fill with bugs from users who don't know the inner guts of the toolchain". > > The Guide is not the best possible guide that can be. It is the guide that > causes the least support questions from users.
This is the second time that someone has said something like this with respect to the official Gentoo Guides (the other was the kernel upgrade guide, and its recommendation to use ''make menuconfig instead of 'make oldconfig')... It would be nice if there were a formal/official place to find 'Advanced User Guides'... ;) -- Charles
