Mailing List Archive: Does anyone else find this misleading to the reader?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6

You are told in chapter 6 that if a new Portage version is available, to
ignore it. This is incorrect and misleading to readers, and should be
changed appropriately

"If you are warned that a new Portage version is available and that you should
update Portage, you should ignore it. Portage will be updated for you later on
during the installation."

I believe this has been overlooked and is incorrect. Portage /will
not/ be updated automatically later on during the rest of the Gentoo
installation. I'm not saying that portage wont be updated /after/ the
installation with emerge -uD world,
i'm stating that this part/wording in the handbook is not correct.
Some person then marked it as closed because he/she thought their
opinion was correct. (their not correct).
I have brought this up on IRC many times, and I always here people
talk about it as being a confusing/misleading statement that should be
re-stated.

Thanks for looking into it.

John P.

As far as I know, this is a remnant of the original installation
method, including a "emerge system" step.
In this step, taking place after updating the portage tree, portage
is automaticly updated.

regards

Maurits

Op 13-jul-2006, om 14:31 heeft John Paine het volgende geschreven:

> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6
>
> You are told in chapter 6 that if a new Portage version is
> available, to ignore it. This is incorrect and misleading to
> readers, and should be changed appropriately
>
> "If you are warned that a new Portage version is available and that
> you should
> update Portage, you should ignore it. Portage will be updated for
> you later on
> during the installation."
>
>
> I believe this has been overlooked and is incorrect. Portage /will
> not/ be updated automatically later on during the rest of the
> Gentoo installation. I'm not saying that portage wont be updated /
> after/ the installation with emerge -uD world,
>
> i'm stating that this part/wording in the handbook is not correct.
> Some person then marked it as closed because he/she thought their
> opinion was correct. (their not correct).
> I have brought this up on IRC many times, and I always here people
> talk about it as being a confusing/misleading statement that should
> be re-stated.
>
>
>
> Thanks for looking into it.
>
> John P.
>
>
>
>
>