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but this would sort of sidestep the entire point of gentoo.. |
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from what i understand gentoo has always been about giving a user all teh |
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options and the documentation to learn and act on their own. if you do not wish |
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to follow this base idea then go with something else like suse or fedora. |
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the rule of thumb i have always gone with if i dont know what an option is then |
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i leave it the heck alone or read the manual to find out what it is. |
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its not like they make it hard to get a list of what the use flags are. Maybe |
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instead of making them go away simply make a to the manual on use flags. gently |
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suggesting to the user to rtfm but ultimately the idea is to read the |
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documentation. |
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--- Norman Rie� <norman@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Andrew Gaffney schrieb: |
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> > Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> >> Norman Rie� wrote: |
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> >>> But see it with the eyes of a random Gentoo beginner. |
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> >>> You come to the "USE Flags" screen seeing some settings. You think |
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> >>> "That |
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> >>> are surely some nice settings. Otherwise they wouldn�t be set as |
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> >>> default". |
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> >>> But then you choose KDE. Now you have a KDE system with "+gnome |
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> >>> -kde" as |
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> >>> USE Flags. |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> If people are not willing to read documentation, that's their fault. |
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> >> Being a |
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> >> newbie or a sysadmin++, it doesn't matter. |
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> > You took the words from my mouth. |
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> Right. But some WILL NOT read the documentation and they WILL create a |
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> crapy system. |
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> And then they WILL run to the forums. And guys like you WILL tell them |
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> to RTFM. |
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> And they will tell their friends what a crapy system Gentoo is and what |
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> jerks these Gentoo users are. |
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> Seriously give them a nice default system and tell them later in a nicer |
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> way to read how to extend the system. |
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