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On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:33:15PM +0200, Alexander Gretencord wrote: |
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> On Monday 22 April 2002 17:46, Yannick Koehler wrote: |
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> > I personnaly switched to Gentoo because I can upgrade my system faster and |
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> > ensure that I'm running the latest version of the software I run in order |
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> > to help testing and get security and other different fix fast. |
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> That's why I made the final step from Slackware to Gentoo. But as I stated, |
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> gentoo _is_ meant for advanced users, that the first thing you get told in |
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> the "About Gentoo" document. |
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Gentoo is a flexible metadistribution. It can be many things to many |
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people, and I think it will be able to meet the expecations of both the |
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novice and advanced user. |
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> You can try to make configuration easier but don't kick *nix for it as |
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> someone else put it already. |
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I see no reason why there cannot be a graphical interface to portage, or |
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for the install. By the same token, I see no reason why the current |
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method has to be affected if such an interface is written. There really |
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is no reason to shun users especially if devs are willing to write the |
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code to support them. |
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These ideas are not new to Gentoo (or Linux for that matter), and they |
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will be dealt with in time. |
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kabau |
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-- |
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"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that |
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would also stop you from doing clever things." --Doug Gwyn |
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