Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

[Harald van Dijk]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:39:29AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> Another "Gentoo is about choice" argument.  Can I ask you something?
> Where does it say that Gentoo is about choice?  I see lots of places
> that say that Gentoo allows you to customize, but nowhere do I see
> anything that says that we are about choice.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1
"About the Gentoo Linux Installation
 Users not familiar with Gentoo do not always know that choice is what
 Gentoo is all about."

And following that link:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=1
"Welcome!

 First of all, welcome to Gentoo. You are about to enter the world of
 choices and performance. Gentoo is all about choices. When installing
 Gentoo, this is made clear to you several times -- you can choose how
 much you want to compile yourself, how to install Gentoo, what system
 logger you want, etc.

 Gentoo is a fast, modern metadistribution with a clean and flexible
 design. Gentoo is built around free software and doesn't hide from its
 users what is beneath the hood. Portage, the package maintenance system
 which Gentoo uses, is written in Python, meaning you can easily view and
 modify the source code. Gentoo's packaging system uses source code
 (although support for precompiled packages is included too) and
 configuring Gentoo happens through regular textfiles. In other words,
 openness everywhere.

 It is very important that you understand that choices are what makes
 Gentoo run. We try not to force you onto anything you don't like. If you
 feel like we do, please bugreport it."

(Note that I'm not going to argue either way whether this is a good
thing; I'm merely pointing out that the docs do say we're about choice.)