Gentoo Archives: gentoo-installer

From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:58:05
Message-Id: 440480D5.7000303@smash-net.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer by Andrew Gaffney
1 Andrew Gaffney schrieb:
2
3 > Simon Stelling wrote:
4 >
5 >> Norman Rieß wrote:
6 >>
7 >>> But see it with the eyes of a random Gentoo beginner.
8 >>> You come to the "USE Flags" screen seeing some settings. You think
9 >>> "That
10 >>> are surely some nice settings. Otherwise they wouldn´t be set as
11 >>> default".
12 >>> But then you choose KDE. Now you have a KDE system with "+gnome
13 >>> -kde" as
14 >>> USE Flags.
15 >>
16 >>
17 >> If people are not willing to read documentation, that's their fault.
18 >> Being a
19 >> newbie or a sysadmin++, it doesn't matter.
20 >
21 >
22 > You took the words from my mouth.
23 >
24 Right. But some WILL NOT read the documentation and they WILL create a
25 crapy system.
26 And then they WILL run to the forums. And guys like you WILL tell them
27 to RTFM.
28 And they will tell their friends what a crapy system Gentoo is and what
29 jerks these Gentoo users are.
30
31 Seriously give them a nice default system and tell them later in a nicer
32 way to read how to extend the system.
33
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-installer] version 0.3 of the Gentoo Linux Installer Revrend Oddball <oddball42@×××××.com>