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Norman Rieß wrote: |
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> Andrew Gaffney schrieb: |
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>> Simon Stelling wrote: |
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>>> Norman Rieß wrote: |
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>>>> But see it with the eyes of a random Gentoo beginner. |
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>>>> You come to the "USE Flags" screen seeing some settings. You think |
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>>>> "That |
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>>>> are surely some nice settings. Otherwise they wouldn´t be set as |
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>>>> default". |
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>>>> But then you choose KDE. Now you have a KDE system with "+gnome |
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>>>> -kde" as |
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>>>> USE Flags. |
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>>> If people are not willing to read documentation, that's their fault. |
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>>> Being a |
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>>> newbie or a sysadmin++, it doesn't matter. |
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>> You took the words from my mouth. |
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> Right. But some WILL NOT read the documentation and they WILL create a |
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> crapy system. |
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> And then they WILL run to the forums. And guys like you WILL tell them |
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> to RTFM. |
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> And they will tell their friends what a crapy system Gentoo is and what |
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> jerks these Gentoo users are. |
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> Seriously give them a nice default system and tell them later in a nicer |
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> way to read how to extend the system. |
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How is that any different than a "manual" install? Many people don't read the |
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handbook completely and then complain loudly about how Gentoo sucks. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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