Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote:
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones "show
stopper" list of Gentoo defects. Gentoo doesn't *need* an installer and all
previous attempts at one have been less than successful. We can all
certainly get along fine without one.
But can you really provide a non-condescending, *rational* argument
explaining why it would be an actively detrimental idea to have a working
installer for Gentoo? Why, if some person appeared tomorrow with a fully
functional, debugged, tested, flexible, easy to use,
fully-handbook-compliant, *optional* drop-in installation process, why that
would be a bad thing?
I would still think its a problema.
People would install Gentoo, get a functional system, not read the
handbook, and flood the forums and this mailing list with already
answered and handbook questions.
Aside from this being exactly what I meant by condescending,
I don't find "if there was an installer then stupid people
would use it" to be a convincing argument.
--Mike
