Handbook Talk:AMD64/Full/Installation

Optional: Selecting mirrors
If you use >=sys-apps/portage-2.2.16, you not have to use As, the SYNC variable in make.conf is deprecated and no longer used by portage. You will should use If you want to be updated from other mirror, you can run select mirror and paste received URI here /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf in variable "sync-uri" example: sync-uri = rsync://rsync.ru.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage

More info https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Sync P.S. Sorry my bad english.

Setting the date and time
Is there a reason Handbook doesn't suggest "ntpdate pool.ntp.org" instead of typing date manually?

Typo "there are e a"
There's an apparent typo on a whole series of these wiki pages. I created and validated wiki account for myself, but alas, it doesn't (yet) give me the option to edit the pages - so apparently I can't correct it.

Anyway, the error: "there are e a couple" should apparently be: "there are a couple" on at least these pages:

(Above posted by Michael Paoli, fixed for wikification)


 * Thanks, corrected. --SwifT (talk) 14:41, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Systemd needed for Banshee Too!

About the optional systemd and Gnome, could you mention that systemd is also required for programs like Banshee that highly depend on Gnome architecture.

404 link on Introduction
The link to the Gentoo AMD64 project site (https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/) leads to a 404 error.