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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> 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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>>> |
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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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>>> 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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>> gentoo had its highest popularity when there were no gui installer (and no |
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>> stable tree). This kept the stupid ' I don't want to read docs' crowd away. |
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> That's a contradicting statement. How was the popularity at highest if it |
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> kept a crowd away? |
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Because once those who know what they were doing have to resort to |
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"Learn to read", "Read The Friendly Manual", and "Ever heard of |
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Google?" so often, after likely having answered the same questions |
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10+times each, they all get a bad reputation, hurting the real |
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popularity of the system. Also, you can't count popularity of |
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something like Gentoo from the number that start to try it and give up |
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half way through the install... but rather by those who're still using |
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it some meaningful amount of time. |
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All... *entirely* wild guesses, though. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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