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> Hmmm... I thought this was a distro for people who KNOW what they're doing |
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> ;-) |
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> Maybe, instead of creating such a symlink, there could be a short mention in |
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> the docs about the path to the files being relative to /boot. |
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> There are so many things newbies (of which I am one) have to learn the hard |
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> way that this one, in comparison, is very minor. |
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Why? I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve. By having the |
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boot --> . symbolic link we have an elegant solution that works for |
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everybody, and doesn't hurt anybody. If the user has a separate /boot |
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partition and doesn't want to have grub point to (hd,x)/boot, then |
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that's fine. That user can even delete the symlink. |
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There was a time when we did not have that symbolic link. I know that |
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I got very tired of the subsequent "Hey, my computer won't boot." "Did |
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you use a separate /boot partition like it says in the docs?" |
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rounds that then occurred several times per week. So, Daniel Robbins |
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came up with a transparent solution that works for everybody. |
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Finally, I would like to clear up a common misconception. Gentoo Linux |
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is, indeed, "geared towards Linux power users". My personal opinion, |
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though, is that |
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it is unrealistic to expect even power users to understand |
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everything that goes into a Linux distribution, so saying that Gentoo |
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is "a distro for people who KNOW what they're doing" seems like |
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a bit much. (In fact, many people seem to come to Gentoo precisely |
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so that they can learn more about Linux without the drudgery required |
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with installing an LFS distro.) I prefer to say |
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that Gentoo Linux is a distro for people who want flexibility. Anything |
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we can do to make it easier for the user that does _not_ unduly impact |
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flexibility is something we should do, and most, if not all, of our |
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developers instinctively seem to understand that notion. Of course, |
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we don't always succeed, but we do try. |
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The opinions expressed above are, of course, my own. Daniel Robbins |
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and the other developers may not agree. |
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