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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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>> There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, "masochists", live in |
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>> peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do |
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>> with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice] |
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>> There have been several attempts to make a decent installer. They |
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>> all failed miserably and got abandoned. Why? Because to tell the |
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>> truth, no one has an authentic interest in the matter. The simple |
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>> answer is most probably the right one. |
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> To add to you (excellent) arguments: |
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> There is no GUI admin tool for gentoo. You drive this puppy on the command |
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> line with tools like emerge, equery, genlop, layman and q. That's how it |
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> works, we are all comfortable with this, and this is good. |
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> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a |
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> different manner to the way the thing will be used. |
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Does porthole count? I use it sometimes and it is well all right. I |
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miss etcat myself. Just as I was starting to get used to it, it |
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disappeared. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |