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Kari Hazzard wrote: [Mon Oct 09 2006, 10:30:40PM CDT] |
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> User-centric design is why Gentoo is/was different from everything |
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> else. Take away choices that people want and you take the Gentoo |
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> philosophy out of Gentoo itself. |
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Heh. You might want to read drobbins' "Making the distribution" |
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articles (see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml) sometime. Many |
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of the original design decisions were intended to facilitate a very small |
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number of developers in assembling and maintaining a sizeable |
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meta-distribution. I think many of those decisions were quite inspired, |
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but "user-centric" is a bit much, I think. |
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All that said, we're not really trying to make things vastly harder on |
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people. Many of the complaining e-mails I've read in this thread have |
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complained without any specifics. If instead they were to say "I'm |
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wondering how I'll do 'blah' w/ the new CD, could somebody let me know |
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the best way to do this", I suspect that everybody would be happier. |
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