Bug 134393 – Should eix be covered in the handbook?

• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Bo Ørsted Andresen (RETIRED) 2006-05-26 03:10:01 UTC]

I would like to suggest that eix should be covered (or at least mentioned) in the Gentoo handbook. I think eix really does a great job at improving the usability of portage and hence I think every new Gentoo user (who reads the handbook) should know about.

My suggestion would be that it should be mentioned in "A Portage Introduction" [1] and perhaps covered more throughly in "Additional Portage Tools" [2], however, any kind of inclusion of eix in official Gentoo documentation would be an improvement IMHO.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2006-05-26 09:34:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
I wouldn't mention in the Portage handbook itself; that is only about official Gentoo-provided tools that come automatically installed with your base system.

While eix is handy, its usage is out of place in the Portage handbook.

We do, however, maintain a separate portage-utils guide[1]; portage-utils is a set of official portage utilities very similar to eix.

We'd be happy to see any eix guide/introduction (doesn't have to be that long, you know) you might want to contribute. :)

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-utils.xml

[Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) 2006-05-26 12:43:40 UTC]

Closing for reasons specified above. If you ever make an eix guide, feel free to attach it to a new bug. :)

[Comment 3 Bo Ørsted Andresen (RETIRED) 2006-05-28 13:26:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Closing for reasons specified above. If you ever make an eix guide, feel free
> to attach it to a new bug. :)

If noone else does it I think I will, however, it may be that I don't get it done until July..

[Comment 4 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2006-06-22 10:02:27 UTC]

*** Bug 137604 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***