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Isn't it intuitive anyways to have the programs selected to be added to use |
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flags? it just makes sense wether or not someone reads the manual |
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On 2/28/06, LinuxMan <linuxman@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> What sort of attitude is that to tempt new users to Gentoo, or anyone for |
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> that matter. Surely the installer should be aiming to make installation |
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> not |
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> just easier but also easier and better than the rest. Otherwise what's the |
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> point? If that's your attitude you might as well not bothered with the |
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> installer and just told everyone to read the manual instead!! I think |
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> Norman |
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> has a valid point and your answer doesn't do his question justice. I'm |
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> concerned that there are potential new users who could add to Gentoo, who |
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> are going elsewhere because of confusing options and attitudes that don't |
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> help anyone. |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:agaffney@g.o] |
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> Sent: 28 February 2006 16:00 |
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> To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux |
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> Installer |
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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 -kde" |
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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 |
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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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> Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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