On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:57:38 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, "masochists", live in > >> peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do > >> with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice] > >> > >> There have been several attempts to make a decent installer. They > >> all failed miserably and got abandoned. Why? Because to tell the > >> truth, no one has an authentic interest in the matter. The simple > >> answer is most probably the right one. > > > > To add to you (excellent) arguments: > > > > There is no GUI admin tool for gentoo. You drive this puppy on the > > command line with tools like emerge, equery, genlop, layman and q. That's > > how it works, we are all comfortable with this, and this is good. > > > > I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a > > different manner to the way the thing will be used. > > Does porthole count? I use it sometimes and it is well all right. I > miss etcat myself. Just as I was starting to get used to it, it > disappeared.
You're just stirring the pot Dale :-) I know for a fact that you can hold your own with emerge and eix :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
