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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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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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The above statement is ridiculous and I've said my piece on it several |
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times. Not worth the bother of debunking it yet again so I'll just link |
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the infamous "Elitist Chowderhead" thread from four years ago. |
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/109660/focus=109984 |
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What people forget is that a well built installer has to run through a |
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number of steps that get you a running system. Ideally a system that has |
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exactly what you expect to be installed and how. Whether this is a GUI, |
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ncurses based, whatever is besides the point. An installer project |
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builds a set of tools that eventually can be used to install hundreds of |
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machines in a uniform way and that is damn useful. |
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kashani |