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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 20:26 +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 09 of November 2005 20:20 Arun Raghavan wrote: |
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> > Call me an idealist, but this sounds too much like a "guilty until |
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> > proven innocent" thing. I'm a "normal" Gentoo user, and had absolutely |
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> > no trouble following the stage1 instructions. Let's leave the "the |
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> > user is dumb" assumptions to Microsoft. |
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> Problem is not about our users, problem is that the newbies shouldn't be |
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> forced to solve Portage tree issues during installation. |
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Correct. |
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Look at bug #88777 as an example. Look at bug #39318 of another. |
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These are fundamental issues with portage that are very slow to resolve. |
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Why should our users be forced to duplicate the work of a dedicated |
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team, whose purpose is to give good, working release materials that |
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already resolve or work around these bugs? |
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> > Instead, a prominent explamnation and warning about what doing |
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> > so-and-so would entail would be good. |
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> Please re-read the entire thread and swift's blog for reasons we're going to |
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> deprecate stage1/2 installation. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |