Bug 38532 – etc-update information missing

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Aquila 2004-01-17 10:49:11 UTC]

A friend of mine made her first steps in gentoo, and didn't understand etc-update at all. Is it possible to mention it? More then one line would be appreciated to new users. We are so used to using it that it's trivial...
Something like: 
"etc-update allows you to update your configuration files. It will try to automatically merge the changes, and otherwise prompt you to do so. Pay attention to files you have changed, especially fstab and make.conf."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.let a new user install gentoo linux and wait for some update to happen

Actual Results:  
Confusion

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-01-18 02:45:46 UTC]

The Portage User Guide has been obsoleted by the second part of the Gentoo Handbook and will be removed from the documentation repository with the 2004 release.

A section on etc-update is available at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4#doc_chap1_sect3

[Comment 2 Aquila 2004-01-18 11:02:33 UTC]

Would it be possible to link to that information from 11.b in the installation part? Just linking is enough, now it's pretty confusing. 
(Sorry if I'm just whining here, imho it's important)

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-01-19 01:36:27 UTC]

A small question: does it really matter? I find it strange that at the end of the installation of Gentoo, etc-update is at all necessary. You should only need it when you update your system, but beforehand you didn't even had a system...

[Comment 4 Aquila 2004-01-19 03:15:12 UTC]

You're right there, it's a little bit later. Sorry for reopening.