Tanstaafl wrote:
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'... ;)
I think that is where this mailing list comes in. Here, you can say
what you have, what you want in the end then someone can tell you a way
to get there. Usually, you will get more than one way and have to pick
your poison. I agree with what Alan said tho. The guides have to be a
work every time for every one that reads it.
Dale
:-) :-)
