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On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> Sebastián Magrí wrote: |
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> >>> The installation experience with the traditional method must be |
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> >>> mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is |
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> >>> deprecated... |
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> >> |
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> >> That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not easy to |
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> >> install. But since there are not enough devs left for the GUI |
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> >> installer, not much that can be done. |
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> >> |
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> >> Gentoo isn't unsuitable for a GUI installer. It's stage 3, after all. |
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> > |
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> > gentoo had its highest popularity when there were no gui installer (and |
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> > no stable tree). This kept the stupid ' I don't want to read docs' crowd |
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> > away. |
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> |
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> That's a contradicting statement. How was the popularity at highest if |
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> it kept a crowd away? |
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because it kept the 'i am too cool to read the docs' idiots away. Being forced |
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to read the documentation is a good thing - and it did not hurt gentoo's |
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popularity. Only after it started to catering to idiots and more and more of |
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loud mouthed 'I am the centre of the universe, I don't need to read docs, use |
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google or bugzilla. I demand an answer and help NOW' assholes came on board, |
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the popularity went down. |
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