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Duncan wrote: |
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> Agreed. Yes, overlays are perhaps a bit more trouble to setup than |
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> simply maintaining normal tree updates once setup. But let's get some |
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> context here. layman's no difficulty at all, really, when compared to |
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> the ordinary stuff we expect Gentoo users to do all the time. Gentoo has |
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> never been about spoon-feeding and this is no exception. Layman is a |
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> great and powerful tool, certainly, and like any powerful tool, it takes |
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> a bit of learning to use, before even the user should trust himself with |
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> it. =:^) But that's more true of Gentoo itself than it is of layman, and |
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> anyone who can manage Gentoo can certainly manage layman with little |
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> trouble. |
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I think you forget about the learning curve: Gentoo users are not born |
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as Gentoo users. They are coming from other distros (say Debian or Ubuntu). |
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For me it was unmasking that confused me a lot in the beginning. |
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There is three different kinds, one is not in "the books" afaik and it's |
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no fun to me to do. I guess without autounmask by now I would be so |
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frustrated to not use Gentoo anymore. |
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Seriously, stuff like the layman setup mess is another tiny reason |
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keeping our user base smaller than needed, keeping our recruiting rates |
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down. |
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