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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:53 -0500, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > We have received *numerous* complaints from users about the decision to |
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> > remove stage 1 and 2 from the installation documentation. I realize it's |
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> > still available if users are willing to dig for it, but not all users do. |
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> > In my years of monitoring www@g.o, we've received the most |
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> > complaints about this decision than any other single decision. Is there a |
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> > way we can re-introduce the stages into the installation documentation, |
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> > perhaps with gigantic warnings saying, "for advanced users only" or "use at |
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> > your own risk"? |
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> Well, if we could educate the users that stage2 tarballs are totally |
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> pointless, and that running bootstrap.sh followed by emerge -e system |
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> from a stage3 is pretty much *exactly* the same as starting a stage1 |
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> from scratch... |
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It isn't pretty much anymore. It *is* exactly the same. |
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> To me, the email from that user sounds like the typical vocal minority |
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> of users who make "screw common sense in favor of choice" complaints |
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> whenever we change something for the better. |
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Exactly. |
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It sounds like we are letting ourselves be swayed by a few heated words |
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from someone who is obviously shooting for a reaction. |
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If we give in, the terrorists have won. |
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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 |
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