On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 06:20:04PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 24.07.2015 um 14:56 schrieb James: > > Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes: > > > >> Just be practical. From my experience showing up at a LUG and telling 20 > >> people how something worked well for you gets you a lot further than > >> handing out free T-shirts and hats at a booth. > > > > Rich, I'll be practical. Gentoo needs an installer program, like most > > other distros if you want your rank_n_file users to entice new users. > > nope. > > Gentoo does not need an 'installer'. We have way too many people not > being able to read simple instructions already or spending 5minutes on > google&thinking for themselves. Just look at this mailing list. We > really don't need more of them. >
Hahahahahaha. This made me laugh. Anyways, on a serious note, we should have an installer. I don't really care if there's an automated installer for my desktop, but it's essential for servers/clusters that as much as possible is automated and repeatable. Alec
