Fabian Groffen dixit (2011-02-10, 10:39): > On 10-02-2011 07:54:16 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > The only way to avoid epic failures is to keep the whole thing simple, > > without trying to fit everybody. An installer that would cover a > > standard install, newbie-oriented scenario would be definitely good. > > Experienced people won't use it anyway, so why bothering trying to > > cover their needs, it would be a straight way to fail again. > > Just FYI: > Interestingly, it were the power/experienced users that requested a > simple installer, because they got tired of copy&paste-ing the same > commands from the manual over and over again.
Actually power users install Gentoo from memory, it's really not much more, than untarring two tarfiles, editing a few configs, making the kernel and installing the bootloader. -- [a]
