James Northrup posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:41:38 -0800:
> this is my first join or post of gentoo-dev in what might be 4 years of > enjoying the distro. Cool, but... please don't hijack threads. You apparently hit reply while viewing a post on "Stabilizing platform-independent packages", then changed the subject. It's still a reply and in the same thread, for those with threaded clients, so... you hijacked a thread. Use new-post, instead of reply, so you create a new thread, instead of hijacking an old one. > init.d syntax du jour "Use the handbook, Luke." <g> The second part of the Gentoo Handbook covers most of this pretty well. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml > ebuild 123's After the handbook part two, the various portage manpages are quite useful. In particular, the manpages for ebuild (1,5) are quite helpful. Beyond that, take a look at the Gentoo Developer Handbook. For a user, part one probably isn't much help, but it looks like part two, the various ebuild/eclass etc guides, should be pretty informative. (I'm just a user myself, and have read the manpages mentioned above, but not yet gotten to the developer handbook, so I'm just going off of a quick scan of the contents at the URL below.) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml I don't have any idea on your other questions. -- 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
