Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Duncan wrote:
> Meanwhile, lest the point have been missed in my previous post, I really
> do believe gentoo can and should reach out to other gentoo-based distros,
> and all distros in the community can and should be directly supporting
> each other and referring users to each other when they're a better fit
> for the specific use-case.  It's possible some may not want it (IOW ask
> first), but for those that do, I could even envision the early sections
> of the handbook where people are choosing what they want and how they
> want to install, linking directly to these sister distros both as quick-
> install methods and for those who sort of like the idea of gentoo, but
> aren't quite ready to jump into the full from-source thing just yet, tho
> they might want an easy way to get ready so they can do it later if they
> decide to.  At least sabayon (and I'd suppose calculate as well) already
> encourages those who wish to, to switch directly to gentoo, and both
> mentions and links gentoo resources in its documentation, and it'd be
> very nice if gentoo was willing to return the favor. After all, we're on
> the same team, and as I've pointed out to other users in the past,
> there's no lost face in simply deciding gentoo isn't right for you at
> this point, and that some other distro is a better match.  If we can
> point them at a gentoo-based distro, they'll at least still be in the
> ecosystem, and who knows, when their needs change, they may well be
> back.  =:^)
 
This is reasonable and fair enough. Feel free to submit required
changes to the wiki[1]. I'm not sure if users are allowed to change
this article, but you can always open a discussion page with
proposed changes[2].

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page
[2]https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Template%3AInfoBox+talk+open&namespace=561

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko