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From: Antoni Grzymala <awaria@××××××××××.pl>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:57:14
Message-Id: 20110210095619.GA25667@lemongrass.antoszka.pl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based) by Fabian Groffen
1 Fabian Groffen dixit (2011-02-10, 10:39):
2
3 > On 10-02-2011 07:54:16 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
4 > > The only way to avoid epic failures is to keep the whole thing simple,
5 > > without trying to fit everybody. An installer that would cover a
6 > > standard install, newbie-oriented scenario would be definitely good.
7 > > Experienced people won't use it anyway, so why bothering trying to
8 > > cover their needs, it would be a straight way to fail again.
9 >
10 > Just FYI:
11 > Interestingly, it were the power/experienced users that requested a
12 > simple installer, because they got tired of copy&paste-ing the same
13 > commands from the manual over and over again.
14
15 Actually power users install Gentoo from memory, it's really not much
16 more, than untarring two tarfiles, editing a few configs, making the
17 kernel and installing the bootloader.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based) Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@××××××.ru>